Africa/Global: Lack of diversity in the media

In recent years, industrialized nations led by the US have imposed global trade agreements more favorable than ever to the giant media corporations. This has resulted in the rise of a global media oligopoly: a few tightly knit, dominant transnational firms with interlocking boards of directors and unprecedented lobbying power. This lack of diversity is causing news from a large part of the world simply to disappear. Visit Choike.org, a portal on Southern civil society, for more information.