newspaper industries + conglomerates

newspaper example of conglomerate + subsidiary

  • disney- owns national geographic, fox news, abc, 20th century fox.
  • unileaver- vaseline, hellmans, ben&jerrys 


what is an issue with a a conglomerate owning multiple multiple media companies in different industries?
by owning many companies in many industries it gives them a lot of power but

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