Reading for Jan. 29

The essay "Operating in the Public Interest or in Pursuit of Private Profits?," by Dell Chaplin and Janet Knoedler seems just like previous essays that I have read. It states that there is a media monopoly of a few large corporations that work together to prevent additional competition. They do this to make more profit. The authors of this essay are bringing the same message across as Tom Goldstein did in his essay, "Does Big Mean Bad?." This theme of stating that there is a media monopoly is getting repetitive. I was bored with the essay. It used strategies like listing facts and statistics, which have been used before in previous essays. It is a good essay but I have read too much about this topic of big businesses owning multiple sources of news.