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It allows for companies to have a great deal of power over what people are viewing. Conglomeration implies that one company (Disney) can be joint to a television broadcast (ABC), a movie network (Touchstone Pictures), a music company (Virgin), a distribution company (Walmart) and creates a concentration in wealth and optional media. Since there has been a deregulation in media laws in the early 1980s (loss of power for the FCC) it has allowed more companies to create conglomerates. The biggest issue is that media conglomerates focus on profit and treat their viewers as consumers rather than citizens.

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