"At this late stage, media companies have grown so large and powerful, and their dominance has become so detrimental ... that there remains only one alternative: bust up the big conglomerates [3]. ... We've done this before: to railroad trusts in the first part of the 20th century, to Ma Bell more recently. Politically, big media may be on the wrong side of history," wrote Time Warner board member and Turner Broadcasting System founder Ted Turner [4], in an article for Washington Monthly magazine. Turner admits that he's benefited from media consolidation [5], but writes, "Yet I felt then, as I do now, that the government was not doing its job."