11.   Like other recent media mergers, there is something almost hydraulic about the vision underlying this merger.

12.   Other journalistic conflicts of interest, meanwhile, pile up in exponential relation to media mergers.

13.   Recent media mergers such as Disney and Infoseek, Excite and At Home, NBC and Snap made it impossible for Lycos to go it alone.

14.   Shares of the two companies soared after they announced the first broad-scale U.K. media merger to anticipate a change in media ownership rules this summer.

15.   Shares of the two companies soared after they announced the first broad-scale U.K. media merger to anticipate a relaxation of media ownership laws this summer.

16.   The big media mergers are partly inspired by visions of the payoff from combining related businesses.

17.   The bill also lifts restrictions against certain kinds of huge media mergers and alliances, some of which could dampen that all-important competition.

18.   The company said, however, it does not plan to compete in the wave of multi-million dollar media company mergers now sweeping the U.S.

19.   The deal is the latest in a series of aggressive media mergers that have seen the entertainment world consolidate into a handful of major entities.

20.   The government body that has historically regulated and restricted media mergers, the Federal Communications Commission, is trying to get out of that business.