Lens Through Which Corporate Media Sees African American Media

Harsh Realities: Until America’s monopolized media experiences a paradigm shift where Black subscribers completely abandon cable TV, cutting deals with the nation’s six largest media conglomerates will likely remain a humiliating, inimical, and one-sided experience for Black-owned media companies. Did you know that between 1983 and 1984, fifty independent media companies owned the majority of media interests within the United States? Today a whopping ninety percent of the United States’ media is controlled by six corporate media conglomerates.

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