Hold On to Your Phone Bill -- It's Merger Time
- Commentary on lack of FCC concern about the effects of consolidation of telephone and broadcasting services on consumer interests and democracy. From Mother Jones.
- http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1999/10/fotc6.html

Bloodbath in the District of Columbia
- An essay from UnquietMind.com about the destructiveness of the Washington scandal culture.
- http://unquietmind.com/bloodbath.html

Blithe Spirit
- Articles by Jim Bowman.
- http://blithe-spirit.com/

OpinionJournal - Best of the Web Today
- Running commentary about current events. The work of James Taranto and Elizabeth Crowley of the Wall Street Journal editorial page.
- http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/

Making Media Democratic
- Article that critcizes the effect of commercial corporate media on society, and that calls for reform that brings diversity of ownership and access. By Robert McChesney from The Boston Review.
- http://bostonreview.net/BR23.3/mcchesney.html

Consent, American Style
- Analysis and commentary by Steve Mizrach about manipulation of the public through the media. Based on views of Michael Parenti, Noam Chomsky, and Ben Bagdikian.
- http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Media/Consent_AmerStyle.html

Tabloids, Talk Radio, and the Future of News
- Technology's Impact on Journalism by Annenberg Senior Fellow Ellen Hume
- http://www.ellenhume.com/articles/tabloids_contents.html

Ben Bagdikian Interview
- Interview with media analyst about effect of corporate media ownership, using tobacco issue as example. From PBS Frontline.
- http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/interviews/bagdikian1.html

Necessary Illusions -- Online Book by Noam Chmosky
- Commentaries contend the "free press" serves the needs of those in power, rather than free speech and democracy.
- http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/ni/ni-contents.html

The Television Thing
- This article summarizes The Sound Bite Society, a study of television and ideology. (Dissent Summer 1995) By Jeffery Scheuer
- http://www.jscheuer.com/dissent.htm