An Economic and therefore Governmental Issue While the digital divide might bring up the idea that enterprises will be able to sell more and more computers during the next years another truth looks as if there was no hope for a certain percentage of the population to get out of their marginalization, their position of being "have nots". Studies show that the issue of different colors of skin play a role in this, but more than "racial" issues it is income, age and education that decides about the have and have nots. There exist ~ 103 million households in the USA. ~6 million do not even have telephone access. Why should they care about computers? The digital divide cuts the world into centers and peripheries, not into nations, as it runs through the boarder between the North and the South as well as through nations. http://www.digitaldivide.gov/ http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/ http://www.pbs.org/digitaldivide/ http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-344552.html http://racerelations.about.com/newsissues/racerelations/msubdigdivide.htm http://www.techweek.com/articles/11-1-99/divide.htm http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/net2/falling.html The most different institutions with various interests in their background work in that field; not rarely paid by governments, which are interested in inhabitants, connected to the net and economy. see also: http://www.washington.edu/wto/digital/ Searching information about the digital divide one will find informations saying that it is growing all the time whereas other studies suggest the contrary, like this one http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-341054.html

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Highlights on the Way to a Global Commercial Media Oligopoly: 1980s -1981 Rupert Murdoch and his News Corp., owner of major print and broadcast media in Australia and Great Britain, takes control of the "Times" of London, long one of the world's greatest newspapers and a genuine institution in Britain. 1984 Twentieth Century Fox, a major Hollywood movie studio and film library, is taken over by Rupert Murdoch. 1985 Lawrence Tisch and his Loews Corp. takes control of the CBS-TV network. The News Corp. buys the six Metromedia TV stations, with which Murdoch forms a new American TV network, Fox Television. 1989 In a US$ 14.1 billion deal, Time Inc. buys the film, television, and recorded-music giant Warner Communications. The new media giant is called Time Warner.

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