Time Warner

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to the public, and something which all of us citizens
around the World should be aware of ? Isn’t Time Warner
just a success of capitalism ? A successful company, which
employs thousands of people and makes massive turnovers,
while at the same time advancing the cause of the global
market and promoting commercialism doesn’t seem like a
thing of public concern. In the World village today, why
should we need thousand’s upon thousand’s of small
independent company’s and tv stations and newspaper’s, when
we could have ten large conglomerates who would control
everything from production to sales to distribution ? The
way in which thing’s have developed over the past ten
years, that scenario or fiction might even become fact or
reality. So why should it bother the people of the World
?
To begin answering that question, we need to go back a
hundred years or so and look at the work of Karl Marx and
his ...

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involved. To maximise a
company profits the same company has to maximise its reach
with the public. So, instead of owning only the sales of a
product, the company owns the production and distribution
of that same product. To make it more simple, instead of
owning just a film, the media company owns the studio in
which the film was shot, the cinemas where people can go
and see the movie, the stores where people can go and rent
the movie, the record company which releases the soundtrack
and the stores which sell them, and the company which
produces all the essential memorabilia (such as T-shirts,
coffee mugs, calendars…). The list does not stop at
movies. ...

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