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Topic
Media Consolidation
Episodes · 12 months
7
Nov 2025–Oct 2026peak share, Feb 2026
Share of analysed episodes per month, Nov 2025 to Oct 2026: 0 of 3,617, 1 of 3,900, 1 of 4,159, 2 of 4,280, 1 of 4,796, 2 of 4,510, 0 of 4,303, 0 of 4,400, 0 of 4,602, 0 of 4,522, 0 of 4,750, 0 of 4,731.
All time
9
episodes
On record
2
took a position
Where they standLast discussed
7mo ago
Apr 18, 2026
Where they stand
Talking pointsNot enough disagreement in the transcripts to form camps. These are the positions taken by people with demonstrated expertise on this topic first, then by how many people heard them on it, then by VoiceRank. Positions are extracted from transcripts by a model and may misattribute who said what. Every quote links to the episode it came from.
Carl DealUnrated
Corporate media mergers are detrimental because they limit consumer choice and restrict the information the public can access.
“it not only affects the business, but it affects the consumer and what it is that we have access to, right?”
HasanAbi · Apr 2026 · 1 episode · 129K views on this topicKP
Media consolidation poses an existential threat to freedom of speech and democracy by allowing a small number of powerful entities to control the information landscape.
“When a handful of billionaires and giant corporations control what Americans watch, hear, read, and ultimately discuss. When they exert undue influence on where those discussions are steered, that is when freedom of speech becomes something closer to a branding exercise than a constitutional guarant”
MeidasTouch · Apr 2026 · 0 episodes · 0 views on this topicExtracted by a model; may misattribute who said what.
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Episodes discussing this topic
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Share of episodesThis topic's episodes as a share of every episode we analysed, in each complete month. We analyse more episodes every month, so a raw count would mostly show that growth. Recent months fill in as transcripts are analysed.
Complete months · first on record Jul 2019