This article shows the fight between Clear Channel and an independent concert venue in Denver. Because clear channel owns all the pop-music radio stations in Denver, they havethe power to control concert promotions in Denver. The concert venue must fulfill Clear Channel's request or they could possibly go out of business. I will use this example show how mergers take away a filteration level in Hirsch's model, therefore showing the pre-selection of what media will be successful.

In this article, Boehlert writes of how a merger is about to occur between Hispanic Broadcasting Corporation and Univision.  The new company would control over 70% of the market.  It turns out that Clear Channel is HBC's largest shareholder.  Critics claim that Bush and conservative Republicans have pledge to help Clear Channel in the merger.  Boehlert shows the interwine of politics and media conglomerates, and how political bias is conveyed into every medai viewing.

Gabriel Rossman uses the Dixie Chicks incident of when they openly spoke out against Bush to show how synergy is creating corporate censorhip.  Companies like Clear Channel may not be as quick to black list the Dixie Chicks, but when they do, they can eliminate radio play, concert advertising, the concerts themselves, and future success.  This correlates with the media conglomerates directing the audience what to like, thus a move from fandom to fadism.