User talk:Yoshi1215/Yoshi1215’s sandbox

Welcome to the talk page on my sandbox!--Yoshi1215 (talk) 00:52, 24 January 2012 (UTC)

A few comments from NetworkedTogether: Ruth First of all, great topic. There is a lot of different ways you can approach this.

""A brief description of some concepts or topics to be explored that will expand the article."" It would be nice to have some specific details and numbers to prove your points. There has been research done on how media conglomeration reduces the staff, the topics covered, localism, and diversity. You have very good points, but be sure to back them up with more details.

""Citations for two academic papers that they should look through"".

Underwood, M. (Winter 2008) ON MEDIA CONSOLIDATION, THE PUBLIC INTEREST, AND NOTICE AND AGENCY CONSIDERATION OF COMMENTS Administrative Law Review 60. 1 : 185.

Copps, M. (2007). Media Consolidation: Not in the Public Interest. Television Quarterly37. 3-4 12-15.

""A brief description of why each of the papers noted in (b) will be helpful.""

Both of these have some potentially interesting data. The one by Michael Copps is interesting because he is on the FCC. 


""A quote from one of the two academic research papers identified in (b) that might be of interest."" The article by Copps is scathing and great. A good quote is- “First, the consolidation we have seen so far and the decision to treat broadcasting as just another business has not produced a media system that does a better job serving most Americans. Quite the opposite, in fact.Rather than reviving the news business, it has led to less localism, less diversity of opinion and ownership, less serious political coverage, fewer jobs for journalists, and the list goes on.”

""After conducting a search on Wikipedia Commons (http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page), post a link to a media file (image, sound, movie) that can be incorporated into each article.""

The huge mega-news corp picture

""Make relevant suggestions for improving grammar, “wikification,” etc.""

It looks very “wikified”, no suggestions from me.  :-) --NetworkedTogether (talk) 00:43, 29 February 2012 (UTC)

Suggestions from Kossmatt (talk) 00:59, 29 February 2012 (UTC) Great start on this topic so far. I am guessing that you are going to be adding more information into the sections that you currently have. The section titles (e.g. Avoid the danger of demagogic power) that are bold were rather distracting as there was not much text between them.

I found a few links that may be of some help: Media ownership and concentration in America By Eli M. Noam http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Kd_1STqyGFcC&oi=fnd&pg=PR9&ots=5r5eMCtj5s&sig=KhxvC_znYIKSOfyvJW1DoGmF_mw#v=onepage&q&f=false -this book looks like it will provide useful information about media ownership on what has been done, what is being done, and things to consider for the future.

http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=rbovMF7_Ft8C&oi=fnd&pg=PP2&ots=MmGoKQHKO3&sig=RtK9tNeGcEkUmRjdSSSPLerjYPo#v=onepage&q&f=false A good Tim Dwyer book on Media Convergence.

Good start

Just wanted to say good start, only note is to remember when you move the article to the mainspace in Wikipedia is that the class template should only be on the talk page - not the article page. Cheers Chris/Epistemophiliac (talk) 17:02, 13 March 2012 (UTC)