worried about media conglomerates?

In the United States we hold dear our constitution and shun anybody or any institution which would infringe on the rights granted to us by that document.  If a despot President were to try to gain unprecedented amounts of power either Congress would hold impeachment trails, or, if the Congress were in league with the despot, we would overthrow both, or at least we are constitutionally able to.  If the government were to try to limit free speech or freedom of religion or nonbelief or any of the other ideals we hold dear, we would vote them out of office. So why then, do we allow Media corporations to for monstrous conglomerations which can influence just those?  Conglomerations hold power over us, they can control the choices of products we have, or at what price we buy them.  Conglomerates can buy up all of the newspapers in a region and make all articles meet company standards, or show advertising for only their products.  We can listen to music from Atlantic records right before going to see a Warner Bro's Film, and, just before bed, watch news on CNN.  In other words, conglomerations are all around us and can, to a certain extent, control us.

Deregulation is not the answer to this.    Consumers need protections.  Not the traditional protections, such as laws against obscenity in broadcasting-the government isn't our nanny-we need tougher anti-monopoly laws to ensure that one company doesn't get too big, to make sure that one source isn't so much influencing public opinion.  Humans have a tendency to follow blindly when there are no alternatives, but when the market is full of alternatives, humans can pick and choose to form opinions, with conglomerations, and all our information coming from fewer sources we are like cows being take to slaughter.  We need protections, or one day we'll not only be watching Warner Bro's movies but sipping WarnerCoffee while watching that movie, in Six Flags, Minnesota