Eric Klinenberg's scary media book

-Neil Yoshida Is author Eric Klinenberg trying to scare his point of view into the minds of whoever buys his book on the dangers of big media. Is he taking credit for the recent deconsolidation of big media. We don't know. We either need coffee or we just don't quite get what he is trying to say. Is he saying he predicted that their would be deconsolidation in big media? Oh forget it. The North Dakota tragedy -- one death, hundreds sickened -- is the book's sensational scare story of media consolidation. Klinenberg focuses on Big Media's usual suspects -- Clear Channel, Fox, Viacom, Disney, Sinclair -- and accurately details their attempts to Own It All in the 1990s and early 2000s, when the Federal Communications Commission relaxed media ownership rules. The consolidation galvanized a handful of activist groups that warned of an Orwellian future. But the media landscape has changed radically in just the past year, and Klinenberg bears little blame for having written an incomplete account.Here's a partial list of recent upheavals since he wrote his book: Viacom split in two. Clear Channel is selling its TV stations and one-third of its radio stations. The New York Times sold its TV stations. The Knight Ridder newspaper chain dissolved. Tribune sold TV stations and may yet be broken up. Walt Disney sold its radio stations. Emmis Communications sold its TV stations. Wave after wave of deconsolidation. Who Owns the Media? [Washing Post]