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The world's richest people enjoy smug predictions that our huge, biased and therefore untrustworthy global media empires will soon be toppled - and perhaps not before time.  Our 'Legacy Media' is apparently fated to be over-run by social media news platforms streaming live content produced by the users, for the users and above all, enshrining the user's freedom of speech.  This will give everyone A Voice and of course, access to The Truth. ""You hear that Mr Murdoch ?  That is the sound of inevitability.  It is the sound of your death." It is no secret that in the last 40 years, 90% of the global film, TV and print media we consume has been consolidated under just 6 owners. This global accretion is similarly mirrored on national levels .  Local newspapers in the US have folded faster than any time previously while the UK's distinctive local radio stations have fallen prey to ever-hungry national networks. One after another the UK has seen local radio ...