Media ownership also has implications for freedom of information and censorship.

Increasingly, the media is owned by businessmen with powerful commercial interests and related agendas. A handful of media tycoons own a large percentage of the world's newspapers and television networks. It's not unreasonable to assume that such tycoons would have a range of investments, and media coverage of certain stories could affect those investments. The owner of a paper, television or radio station would naturally want to have a say in how, when and whether a story which had implications for him or her was covered.