Media Ownership: Crash Course Media Literacy #8

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We’ve talked about how broad a concept “the media” really is – and given that, it can be hard to keep track of all the different forces that constitute “the media.” It can be tough, but it’s not impossible. Today we’re talking about how all those big players fit together and why all those mergers and acquisitions matter to being a media literate citizen.

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I'm 30 years old and have been wanting to learn about media literacy for a long time. Now I can learn in 12 minutes a week! Even with my busy schedule, I can handle that. I can't believe such a crucial subject wasn't given any priority in the public education system I was a part of. Thank you Crash Course for all you're doing to make important subjects like this so accessible.

coralee

Love this course - you're so charismatic, funny at times "... ruin it with completely the wrong casting oh my god why" and then time all your seriousness perfectly for engaging, informative, easily understandable and poignant performance. Really appreciate this delivery considering your subject, it really reflects the importance, complexity and yet kind of fun of media literacy - not to mention the information itself, and how great it is that Crash Course has introduced this! Wonderful work :)

a_e_hilton

You sound like a sped up Bill Cosby. If you don't believe me, play it at 75% speed. It's amazing.

AbbreviatedReviews

Monopolies exist in the US and I don't see anybody regulating it. I lived in NYC for a while and the main internet provider was Timer Warner, recently Optimum online was creating a bit of competition. I now live in Pennsylvania and Comcast is the only internet provider.

allandario

Times are a changing - back in the day I worked at cable company as face to face customer service. People would come in and pay their bills and communicate loudly about the lack of quality programming with their 100 channel packages. I would listen patiently and the argument closer for me was, “I understand your frustration. We here at the cable company only deliver the content. We don’t produce the content.” After watching this that argument no longer applies. Hehehehe

patlussenden

This is such an intriguing topic. I was just talking about this very thing with my friend earlier this week

b.sharp.

Love this series! Just one quick note: Amazon doesn’t own the Washington Post, Jeff Bezos does. He is also the CEO of Amazon, but he owns the Post personally. This definitely has potential effects on how both Amazon and the Post operate, but it’s not quite the same as Amazon directly owning the newspaper.

wpdrummer

This is not an accurate description of net neutrality.

Internet companies can already charge you a higher price for faster Internet. That by itself isn't terribly concerning: you pay more for better service, just like with lots of other stuff. What they can't do (or, in the US, couldn't do until recently) is charge you a higher price for specific content, or conversely slow down specific content if you don't pay them. That's why it's net neutrality: the idea is that the infrastructure of the internet should be content neutral.

Among other things, this prevents Comcast from setting up their own video service (they already have Hulu, like the video points out) and forcing people to use it instead of Youtube or Netflix if they want to watch videos in a reasonable amount of time. This also prevents Comcast from censoring the Internet by blocking criticism of themselves, or by blocking services like BitTorrent which Comcast as a media company disapproves of.

brianb.

Media's really scary and kinda terrible but you make it a little less scary and terrible.

evangrim

I was hoping you would go into more depth about public interest and choice theories and talk about state and government funded media since there were new guidelines set out for Youtube recently. I feel internet neutrality kind of deserves its own episode to be covered in greater detail because the arguments are more about possible censorship concerns over monopoly price.

ericarobbin

This is just so good. Well presented and informative. I'm so glad I found this. Thank you.

johnq

beautiful, beautiful, so you through this video confirm people like options but they dont care weather one or multiple persons gives that option.Only healthy competition has to be hold strong as the personal moral giving constant upgrades to the society at large.I like your team.

nmnjudith

Yes, he talked about Bell too Thank you sir

aliciaclacy

As a patron of Crash Course it annoys me that - for this course in particular - it is soooo USA cetric. Your consumers are global. And a global perspective is needed! The world is not the USA - even if Trump wishes it so.

robwatso