Salon and other smaller media companies have huge, deep-pocketed competitors

• AOL/Time Warner ($148 billion/81,000)
  CNN, Sports Illustrated, Time, People, etc.

• Disney ($84 billion/120,000)
  ABC, ESPN

• Yahoo! ($73 billion/2000)

• Gannett ($15.5 billion/45,000)
  USA Today

• New York Times ($6.7 billion/13,400)

• Washington Post ($4.5 billion/9000)

• ZDNET ($1.2 billion/500)

Six corporations (Viacom/CBS, Disney, Fox, AOL/Time Warner, General Electric, Bertelsmann) currently dominate most of every mass medium in the United States

-- Ben Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly, published May 2000

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