Articles by Viktor Lidholt

In the 1980's, the diversity in media was much greater than it is today, with about fifty companies controlling the majority of the news market. Even then, voices were raised over the problems with media concentration. Today, some 30 years later, they have all been merged down into only a handful of giant corporations. As the number of companies has declined, so has the trust in news media. Today, trust is at record lows, with only a quarter of Americans under 50 years of age having some sort o...