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| | The New Global Media |
 | | Whereas previously media systems were primarily national, in the past few years a global commercial-media market has emerged. |
 | | In short order, the global media market has come to be dominated by the same eight transnational corporations, or TNCs, that rule US media: General Electric, ATandT/Liberty Media, Disney, Time Warner, Sony, News Corporation, Viacom and Seagram, plus Bertelsmann, the Germany-based conglomerate. |
 | | While media conglomerates press for policies to facilitate their domination of markets throughout the world, strong traditions of protection for domestic media and cultural industries persist. |
| www.thenation.com /doc/19991129/mcchesney (1096 words) |
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