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Media Conglomerate Impact on Journalism

How do media conglomerates impact journalism? It leads to opinionated journalism versus traditional journalism. Opinionated journalism is a journalist adding his or her ideologies on a matter on top of reporting it to the public. The coverage that conglomerates have of issues, like politics, is not necessarily objective, and fails to report both sides of an issue, if not taking a neutral stance. This is known as media bias. Media bias is "the intentional or unintentional slanting of news reporting toward one side due political views or cultural beliefs of journalists, producers or owners of a media outlet.”

Impact of Conglomerates on the Media

The six major media conglomerates in the United States are The Walt Disney Company, General Electric, News Corporation, Viacom,Time Warner and CBS.

The Walt Disney Company is linked with ABC Television group, creating the largest media corporation, with revenue equal to roughly thirty six billion dollars. Since Walt Disney owns ABC, it directly controls what shows and news is shown.

General Electric owns NBC and does not allow any negative reportings against General Electric on air.

Viacom’s chief executive, Sumner Redstone, considers himself a “liberal democrat” and most of the programs shown have a primarily liberal perspective.

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