... make things. The Amish Cook is the "little column that could." It's defied the odds for years in an age of media consolidation, shrinking newspapers, chopped media budgets and the onslaught of the Internet. I cannot believe The Amish Cook ...

... corporate and lobbyist control of the political process, how to enact real campaign finance reform and how to reverse media consolidation. We have come far, but we still have so far to go. Let us not wait until another anniversary, whether a decade ...

... that question sounded almost anachronistic. Profit pressures have a firm grip on my line of work, the media. Consolidation of ownership is one reason. In radio, a handful of companies has taken a powerful hold, pushing creativity ...

... the airwaves, but stress that it's only one step. "I wish this could address all of the concerns about mass media consolidation," said Cheryl Leanza of the Media Access Project, a public interest law firm. "It's a meaningful step ...

... provider DirecTV, a move that federal regulators say will mean more competition but opponents contend will speed media consolidation. The Republican-controlled Federal Communications Commission voted along party lines, 3-2, to approve the ...

... foreshadowing, however, of questions that TV news organizations are likely to face more often in this world of media consolidation. Plenty of news divisions and publishers are corporate cousins: Hyperion Books and ABC News; Time Warner Trade ...

... media indecency is just an artful dodge to distract the public from the underlying cause: government-assisted media consolidation. "It's not like Janet Jackson's nipple is the only problem with our media system," says media scholar and ...

... increasingly shrill demands for decency standards. Rather than supporting the FCC's proposal to bring outdated media consolidation rules into the 21st century, many in Congress instead turned the subsequent controversy into a political football ...