The Five Sisters
By WILLIAM SAFIRE
http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story162738.html
WASHINGTON ? If one huge corporation controlled both the production and the dissemination of most of our news and entertainment, couldn't it rule the world?
Can't happen here, you say; America is the land of competition that generates new technology to ensure a diversity of voices. But consider how a supine Congress and a feckless majority of the Federal Communications Commission have been failing to protect our access to a variety of news, views and entertainment.