Media Borg

  • Howard Stern's schwing voters

    The raunchy jockey is mobilizing his army of listeners against Bush -- and they could make a difference in November.
    By Eric Boehlert March 12, 2004

  • Former FCC chairman: Deregulation is a right-wing power grab

    Reed Hundt says Monday's historic vote was "the culmination of the attack by the right on the media."
    By Eric Boehlert May 31, 2003

  • Just say no to supersized media

    In Atlanta, at the last "unsanctioned" FCC hearing organized by dissident commissioners, Big Media gets small support.
    By Meredith Hobbs May 29, 2003

  • The big blackout

    Surprise, surprise: The TV networks that will benefit from the new FCC rules on media ownership have been keeping their viewers in the dark about the changes.
    By Eric Boehlert May 22, 2003

  • Can the Web beat Big Media?

    FCC czar Michael Powell says new technologies will let diversity flourish even as giant corporations consolidate their control over TV and newspapers. Dream on.
    By Farhad Manjoo May 21, 2003

  • Habla usted Clear Channel?

    If the FCC allows the two biggest Spanish-language media companies in the U.S. to merge, it'll create a media conglomerate that will dwarf all competitors -- and could help GOP-friendly radio titan Clear Channel deliver Hispanic votes for Bush in '04.
    By Eric Boehlert April 24, 2003

  • Clear Channel's big, stinking deregulation mess

    The sorry state of the radio industry today is sabotaging FCC chairman Michael Powell's plans to let media conglomerates run wild.
    By Eric Boehlert February 19, 2003

  • Steve Case: Brilliant visionary or fumbling clod?

    I don't know -- I'll have to check AOL's stock price and get back to you.
    By Andrew Leonard January 14, 2003

  • Getting a lock on broadband

    How the FCC is paving the way for a few big companies to control everyone's high-speed Internet access.
    By Jeffrey Benner June 7, 2002

  • The Media Borg's man in Washington

    FCC chairman Michael Powell, Colin's smooth, ambitious son, has never met a media merger he didn't like.
    By Eric Boehlert August 6, 2001

  • The amazing disappearing book review section

    Enthralled by marketing surveys, the newspaper industry's managerial caste has decreed that readers want more space devoted to the Backstreet Boys than to books.
    By Kevin Berger July 19, 2001

  • One big happy channel?

    The Telecommunications Reform Act handed over control of the radio airwaves to a chosen few. Will TV be next?
    By Eric Boehlert June 28, 2001

  • Assimilating the Web

    Like "Star Trek's" all-powerful Borg, AOL and Microsoft are determined to crush the spirit of online independence. Is resistance futile?
    By Scott Rosenberg June 26, 2001

  • The Media Borg wants you

    Introducing Salon's new series on the corporate consolidation of the information industries.
    By   June 26, 2001
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