Consolidation in corporations seems to lead to a host of ethical and legal problems. Here is an example from Public Relations, focusing on Armstrong Williams and Ketchum that explains problems that plague the P.R. industry as a whole today as the information spin business is transformed (and disrupted) by an information age. "Public relations specialists are scrambling to adjust to a time in which the Internet revolution and a boom in alternative media sources are rewriting the parameters of the communications industry and challenging traditional sources of authority. So, despite an avalanche of freely available information, the truth is becoming harder to discern." The New York Times > Business > Your Money > Spinning Frenzy: P.R.'s Bad Press