Media ownership and media conglomerates

          After doing some quick research on Media ownership and conglomerates I found that these are the largest media companies in the world:

Disney (market value: $72.8 billion)

AOL-Time Warner (market value: $90.7 billion)

Viacom (market value: $53.9 billion)

General Electric (owner of NBC, market value: $390.6 billion)

News Corporation (market value: $56.7 billion)

Yahoo! (market value: $40.1 billion)

Microsoft (market value: $306.8 billion)

Google (market value: $154.6 billion)

          When I took a more in depth look at google I came to find out that google is a part of majority of the media we use today. The good side of this is that google is steadily growing, and since google is a trusted company in my eyes, I feel comfortable using the other media associated with google. Also if you have investment in google then that could be a great thing because it will be hard for them to fall.
          On the other hand there are a few bad sides to Google being so spread out. If another company messes up or gets sued then it all comes back to google which is why google also has to spend time to approve these companies and trust them not to fail. If, somehow, these other companies did drop then it would bring google's stock lower and lower, hurting not only google employees but also the people that invest in Google.
           After doing this research I have learned many new things. I never knew that all theses companies had as many subsidiaris as they do. I didn't even know google was as big and expanded as it is. This research project has helped me learn new things about media today and it's also helped me to choose my investments wisely and to take a close look at each company before I do.