--- title: Five Best: Amazon & Tech Titans Should Buy Media Outlets description: Amazon and other tech titans should buy more media outlets, did getting a good night’s rest help the Eagles win the Super Bowl and more. canonical: https://time.com/5133355/amazon-and-other-tech-titans-should-buy-more-media-outlets/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-02-05T17:00:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:09.338Z article:section: Ideas og:title: Amazon and Other Tech Titans Should Buy More Media Outlets og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5133355/amazon-and-other-tech-titans-should-buy-more-media-outlets/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Amazon and Other Tech Titans Should Buy More Media Outlets twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Amazon and Other Tech Titans Should Buy More Media Outlets by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 5, 2018 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 5, 2018 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**Amazon and other tech titans should buy more media outlets.**](https://www.recode.net/2018/2/2/16901150/amazon-buying-cbs-deal-viacom-amzn-media-merger) By Edmund Lee in _Recode_ **2\.** [**Did getting a good night’s rest help the Eagles win the Super Bowl?**](http://www.espn.com/nfl/story/%5F/id/22286504/surviving-super-bowl-circus-means-mixing-z-x-o-nfl) By David Fleming at _ESPN_ **3\.** [**Your next sunscreen might be clean and green, and made from algae instead of synthetic chemicals.**](https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/presspacs/2018/acs-presspac-january-31-2018/getting-ready-for-the-summer-sun-with-green-sunscreens.html) By the _American Chemical Society_ **4\.** [**How can big award shows get diversity — race and gender — right?**](http://www.completemusicupdate.com/article/following-the-grammys-we-need-to-totally-rethink-what-award-shows-do/) By Andy Malt at _Complete Music Update_ **5\.** [**Better data can take the guesswork out of giving medicine to newborns.**](https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/03/neonatal-drugs-unapproved/) By Megan Scudellari in _STAT News_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5133355/amazon-and-other-tech-titans-should-buy-more-media-outlets/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5133355/amazon-and-other-tech-titans-should-buy-more-media-outlets/"},"headline":"Amazon and Other Tech Titans Should Buy More Media Outlets","datePublished":"2018-02-05T17:00:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:09.338Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5133355/amazon-and-other-tech-titans-should-buy-more-media-outlets/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","medicine","Innovation","Media","Super Bowl topic","Diversity","sunscreen"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5133355/amazon-and-other-tech-titans-should-buy-more-media-outlets/","name":"Amazon and Other Tech Titans Should Buy More Media Outlets"}}]}] ```