[BigSkyFreeper]

What you're describing is not consolidation of media, what you're getting at is essentially "conflict of interest". The fact that CBS won't acknowledge to the unknowing viewer that Richard Clarke's book is being published by Simon & Shuster (which is owned by Viacom, the parent company of CBS), is disengenious. A media company is doing a service if it lets the viewer know it's being run by a larger company. Like MSNBC saying "MSNBC is a joint venture of General Electric and Microsoft" somewhere in their report of either GE or Microsoft. It's called "public disclosure".

[Destro]

It is called synergy. Enjoy it.