Media: Who Owns What?
The Columbia Journalism Review has a page that describes who owns what in terms of media companies. For example, the New York Times owns a number of papers and TV stations around the country, as well as part of the Red Sox and the Discovery channel (this explains the editorial endorsement/treason when they hoped the Sox would win the pennant, as well as the surprisingly numerous NYT Television productions we see on cable, such as Resident Life). Certain bloggers may have wanted to consult this page before writing. Ah, well.
Anyway, it’s a useful piece of trivia, courtesy of a link from Gawker. From my point of view, media centralization, while a concern and a topic that bears watching, isn’t that high on the priority list right now: we have a few other big things to think about right now, such as the war and apocalyptic terrorism; we also have, with developing technology (i.e., the Internet), other outlets that can help bypass the larger conglomerates.