Televisa as a Monopoly in Mexico

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Since the television appeared, the entire world changed the way of communicating and the means get data about the issues that occur around us (Beggs J., 2013). But what happens if we only have one media to communicate all that information? How does this affect the existence of only one way to get the information to the veracity and the objectivity? That is exactly the situation in México, a country which prevails in a Monopoly in Television, and this control manipulate the information according to its interest.
A monopoly is a market with only one seller that does not have any kind of competition or is very weak, and the offer is not attractive for the client. That single seller is called a monopolist. The monopolies are very powerful businesses that are impossible not to notice. Their principal objective is to obtain the major control that they can have over the market in which they are interacting.
On the other hand, the monopolies are created by private initiative or by the government, and this occurs because it grants the rights of doing business in a particular market (Beggs J., 2013). In this case, the existence of only one media is very convenient because they have in their hands the power of the production and transmission of programs in Mexico. They also have a great percentage of the Mexican people controlled and they do this (control) with their ads and messages given to the people
However, Televisa is one of the most influential and largest companies in the Spanish-speaking world, based on its market capitalization, and is a major participant in the global entertainment business (Grupo Televisa, 2013). This firm was created in 1930 by Emilio Azcárraga Vidaurreta, and since that time Televisa has become in one of the ...

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...ey have the power to manipulate people. So there are plenty of reasons to stop the monopolies not only economically, but also socially because they doesn't allow the free development of thinking, and even with the regulations and laws the companies are trying to create monopolies, so they can earn more money.

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