The New Media Monopoly: A Completely Revised and Updated Edition With Seven New ChaptersWhen the first edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 1983, critics called Ben Bagdikian's warnings about the chilling effects of corporate ownership and mass advertising on the nation's news "alarmist." Since then, the number of corporations controlling most of America's daily newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, book publishers, and movie companies has dwindled from fifty to ten to five. The most respected critique of modern mass media ever issued is now published in a completely updated and revised twentieth anniversary edition. 'Ben Bagdikian has written the first great media book of the twenty-first century. The New Media Monopoly will provide a roadmap to understanding how we got here and where we need to go to make matters better.' -Robert McChesney, author of Rich Media, Poor Democracy |
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Contents
Common Media for an Uncommon Nation | 1 |
The Big Five | 27 |
The Internet | 55 |
Not All the News Thats Fit to Print | 74 |
All the News That Fits? | 91 |
Paper in the Digital Age | 114 |
Rebellion and Remedies | 131 |
Wont They Ever Learn? | 153 |
From Mythology to Theology | 177 |
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Page 279 - Christopher H. Sterling and Timothy R. Haight, The Mass Media: Aspen Institute Guide to Communication Industry Trends (New York: Praeger, 1978), p.
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| Title | The New Media Monopoly: A Completely Revised and Updated Edition With Seven New Chapters Current affairs / media |
| Author | Ben H. Bagdikian |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | Beacon Press, 2004 |
| ISBN | 0807061875, 9780807061879 |
| Length | 320 pages |
| Subjects | › › Business & Economics / Industries / Media & Communications Political Science / Political Process / Media & Internet Social Science / Media Studies |
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