The New Media Monopoly: A Completely Revised and Updated Edition with Seven New Chapters

by Ben H. Bagdikian

Overview

When 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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780807061879
Publisher:	Beacon Press
Publication date:	05/15/2004
Edition description:	Completely Revised & Updated
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.51(h) x 0.86(d)

About the Author

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ben H. Bagdikian is dean emeritus of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. His other books include Double Vision: Reflections on My Heritage, Life, and Profession.

Table of Contents

	Foreword	ix
	Preface to the First Edition	xv
Chapter 1	Common Media for an Uncommon Nation	1
Chapter 2	The Big Five	27
Chapter 3	The Internet	55
Chapter 4	(Not) All the News That's Fit to Print	74
Chapter 5	All the News That Fits?	91
Chapter 6	Paper in the Digital Age	114
Chapter 7	Rebellion and Remedies	131
Chapter 8	"Won't They Ever Learn?"	153
Chapter 9	From Mythology to Theology	177
Chapter 10	"Dear Mr. President ..."	204
Chapter 11	Only the Affluent Need Apply	218
Chapter 12	Dr. Brandreth Has Gone to Harvard	233
	Afterword: Paradise Lost or Paradise Regained? Social Justice in Democracy	257
	Notes	266
	Acknowledgments	283
	Index	285

Editorial Reviews

No book on the media has proved as influential to our understanding of the dangers of corporate consolidation to democracy and the marketplace of ideas; this new edition builds on those works and surpasses them. -Eric Alterman, author of What Liberal Media?

"A groundbreaking work that charts a historical shift in the orientation of the majority of America's communications media-further away from the needs of the individual and closer to those of big business." -Bruce Manuel, Christian Science Monitor

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