https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/10/27/billboard-removes-vinyl-sales-luminate/ The authority for music industry professionals. Tue, 29 Oct 2024 01:38:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2024/10/27/billboard-removes-vinyl-sales-luminate/#comment-431786 Mon, 28 Oct 2024 14:19:03 +0000 https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/?p=305372#comment-431786 Red flags should have gone up long ago, as well, concerning news media consolidation in the music sector. One company owning a vast amount of the organs of “journalism” covering a particular market sector of the American economy is “troubling” at best, an issue that has been the subject of public discussion with the US Government in the past. Whether or not that issue has bearing on the current questions concerning reporting on vinyl sales is not at all clear, but it does raise interesting First Amendment and antitrust issues that deserve greater attention. In light of the Washington Post and LA Times debacles currently unfolding regarding political endorsements and corporate influence in media, shining a stronger light on consolidated ownership of news sources should be more of a priority than it is. Or maybe everyone should just watch Citizen Kane, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and Meet John Doe.

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