Could ownership of certain entities lead to a profound bias in new media? On the one hand, yes, it appears it could. On the other hand, things change so quickly today and people can click in to where they want, I doubt there's as much to fear big picture as it might look now in certain respects.
That we're already discussing it in theory is proof that new media works when it comes to entertaining various views.
via Noel Sheppard at NewsBusters.
Five months ago, the Internet’s top search engine Google was accused of banning conservative websites from its news crawl. Last week, the e-behemoth offered to purchase YouTube, the preeminent provider of videos over the Web that has recently been implicated in censorship of its own. With their pending merger, serious questions arise about the future of the most powerful telecommunications medium on the landscape, and who if anyone is trying to control its content.
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