This isn't a pattern. Old media was at least two or three orders of magnitude less centralized than new media, and this was legally enforced by restricting medi

This isn't a pattern. Old media was at least two or three orders of magnitude less centralized than new media, and this was legally enforced by restricting media ownership. After Clinton deregulated media, it centralized. That's it. So the pattern is if you let extremely wealthy people accumulate without limit, they will.