Sam's Hot Takes #3 - Media Conglomerates

      This is Samuel Watkins, providing you with yet another hot take tonight. This time, I’m addressing the lecture we received on conglomeration and demassification. Specifically, this hot take is addressing the concerns I have with conglomeration as it relates to media companies.
      At around the beginning of April this year, this viral video was making the rounds across numerous news headlines:

 
      For context, this is a group of local news stations reading a conglomerate owner’s script word for word - and according to the group’s own website (Sinclair Broadcasting Group) they’re involved in 191 television stations across the United States. The impacts here are pretty much self-evident - the more media companies a conglomerate controls, the more they’re able to influence what the public sees, reads, and hears… and thus, sway public opinion and the “truth” in whichever direction they wish. If an elitist media conglomerate were to spread even further, the effects would be disastrous.
      But hey - that’s just my take.