This phenomenon is happening similarly with music companies. In fact there are now only three major music companies across the Western world. This is causing ridiculous unification and homogenisation of playlists across the globe.
If you look at the list GE is one. GE stands for General Electric. It's an electricity generation company originally.
Companies eager to sell their latest groups and tv shows across the globe ensure that all radio and tv stations are playing the same stuff nationally and internationally, in order to get the widest coverage and the biggest sales.
However, this has led to virtually everywhere sounding the same.
This is making it difficult, if not impossible, for local sounds and cultures to develop, suffocating change and growth. Change is really slow. And we seem now to be recycling the past again.
I'm not complaining - there are plenty of ways to get my music out through the cracks in their blanket coverage. But it does affect the world in which we live and is defining our milieu.
How then has change happened recently, why are we listening to new types of music than we did in the 90s and 00s? I'm not sure that the choice is that wide.
In the UK there appears to be two types - 'urban' i.e. black or council estate, and middle-class lumber-jack shirt wearing rock or electro music. The bifurcation is either racist or classist, or both. So the idea that there is a proliferation of styles out there is not entirely true.
Equally, how we get our news and information is equally controlled. If we get our news controlled and fed to us by a few vested interests then we are being blindfolded. You can't rely on major news corporations with their vested interests and corporate pals not manipulate news and views in order to benefit themselves, the views of the minority controlling interests and that of their corporate allies.
I guess the only thing to do is to try and get ones news elsewhere. I will try and provide a few sources via my twitter feed from time to time.
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