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Conflict Theory on Media and Technology

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Conflict theorists hold that media and technology reinforce inequality by giving disproportionate voice to the powerful while unevenly distributing access.

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Ownership of major outlets concentrated among few firms shapes whose story reaches the widest audience, a pattern traced to unequal power.

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The claim concerns a structural tendency in who controls media access, not an accusation any individual journalist is compromised.