"My Beef With Big Media" by Ted Turner This is a refreshing look at the issue of big media. Refreshing because unlike much of what we've seen for the past year or two it doesn't attempt to blame a 30 year trend on the current Bush administration. Big media, like big business in general can operate with economies of scale to overwhelm smaller competition. But elimination of all the smaller organizations depletes the gene pool so to speak and can lead to something like a monoculture.