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Media Monopolies
Pattern number within this pattern set:
31 
Verbiage for pattern card:
If most major media outlets are controlled by a small number of corporations pro-business perspectives and propaganda that aligns with the special interests of those corporations can dominate the public conversation. Information that challenges or opposes those interests can be ignored or delegitimized. Amazing progress has been made: From over 80 companies just 40 years ago, now five corporations control a large percentage of the information that American citizens see.