Media Consolodation: Good or bad?

Today our media is controlled by no more than 6 major companies. These companies, are controlled by a very limited amount of people. The way I see it, this almost completely invalidates the mass media. When someone can get two completely different versions of the same story from two major media outlets, there is something wrong with our system. Today however, more and more people are being turned off to the mass media and going to alternate sources provided by developing technology. For example, people may check a few of their favorite blogs or talk to some of their friends online instead of watching the morning news. This is the new face of media. Media made by the people, for the people. It is individuals voicing their own opinions in an unbiased and limitless environment. There is no corporate hand that can control people expressing themselves over the web. This new type of media is the opposite of the super-consolidated giant corporations that control the major media outlets. Media consolodation allows too much room for bias to be injected into the mainstream.

User-created media is the solution to the ever increasing issue of media consolodation. People should turn off their T.V.'s, turn on their computers, and get some real insight and opinions from other individuals as opposed to the manufactured and processed news we hear from the mass media.