The Consolidation of the Marketplace and Newsroom: How Consolidation Quietly Squeezes Prices, Wages — and the Truth

Imagine a town fair where three vendors control every stall, share the same cash register, and politely agree not to undercut one another while telling you it’s “market efficiency.” Now imagine the town newspaper is owned by the same folks who run the stalls. That’s not a dystopian parable — it’s the modern anatomy of consolidation in business and media, with real consequences for prices,…