Global Media And Perpetual War - Pilger

Murdoch's dominance is not as it is often presented. Although he is now one of the west's accredited demons, thanks to his phone hackers, he is but part of a media system that will not change when his empire is broken up.
The political extremism that is the concentration of the world's wealth in few hands and the accelerating impoverishment of the majority will ensure this. A Melbourne journalist, Paul Chadwick, one of the few to rebel against Murdoch, described this as "akin to a small group of generals who sit above the main institutions … a junta in all but name".
Consider the junta's rise. In the US, at the end of the second world war, 80% of newspapers were independently owned. By 1987, most were controlled by 15 corporations, of which six dominate today. FROM HERE