05 maio 2004

VITAMEDIAS

Creation of the Media: one of the things, I think, that's good about the American pattern is that we generally haven't let the company or companies that dominate our prior technology from also controlling a new technology. So if you think about it, the Post Office didn't get control of the telegraph as happened in Europe, and then Western Union didn't get control of the telephone; and then Bell Telephone didn't get control of broadcasting. So we had competition across the different means of communication. Now, today, one of the things, again, that's worrying is that of course the media conglomerates span different media. We don't have that degree of separation which I think was a very healthy influence in the past.