The media conglomerate describes corporations that have prominent many corporations inside various mass media such as television, radio, publishing, movies, and a Internet. The conglomerate is a large company that consists of divisions of ostensibly unrelated businesses. These come confutable whether media corporations are unrelated, inside 2004. So a term media class action can as well exist as applied.

A select few of the big media conglomerates include:

AT&T Berlusconi Group Bertelsmann Canwest Global General Electric Hearst Corporation Lagardère Media Liberty Media News Corporation Sony Time Warner The Times Group Viacom Vivendi Universal Walt Disney Company

Critics develop accused a big conglomerates of dominating media, especially news, and refusing to publicize or even deem "newsworthy" info that would exist as harmful to their more interests, & of contributing to a merging of amusement & news at the expense of hard coverage of good issues. It is besides accused of existence the leading inflict for the standardization of culture (see globalization, Americanization), and it is the frequent target of criticism by left-wing groups (for example, in the United States, anti-corporate activist Ralph Nader routinely criticises them).

Around response, a corporations & their supporters state that it maintain a nonindulgent separation between a business prevent & the production prevent of news departments, & note that consumers enjoy their products. It likewise argue that around the gloexist as in which there are and then numerous outlets for even principles, it would be impossible for of these company or class action of corporations to dominate media.