Until last week, Televisa, the huge Mexican media monopoly, may have been forgiven for not knowing.

Will the supply dry up as the media monopolies predict?

Media power pressured and paid government officials to protect and extend media monopolies.

It can challenge the media monopoly by the warlords who foment tribal hatreds.

Like the smaller commercial spigot, Gatehouse Media, his business plan is written to obtain political control by way of media monopoly.

He ran for a third time in 1996 but, stripped of media monopoly, he lost to Emil Constantinescu.

Various forms of self-expression and protest are sometimes restricted by governmental policy, economic circumstances, religious orthodoxy, social structures, or media monopoly.

"I think that is something that is not really understood in Latin America, which has such an historic bias toward these big media monopolies."

The timing, as well, was designed to deny President Bush a media monopoly for his declaration of war against terrorism.

We did not liberalise a few years ago by breaking up media monopolies simply in order to create new media monopolies.