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The New Media Monopoly: A Completely Revised and Updated Edition With Seven New Chapters Paperback – May 15, 2004
| Ben H. Bagdikian (Author) Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author |
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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
- Print length299 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherBeacon Press
- Publication dateMay 15, 2004
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.79 x 8.51 inches
- ISBN-100807061875
- ISBN-13978-0807061879
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"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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- Publisher : Beacon Press; 20th ed. edition (May 15, 2004)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 299 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0807061875
- ISBN-13 : 978-0807061879
- Item Weight : 12 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.5 x 0.79 x 8.51 inches
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When I was a small boy, I was still taught at school that the press is a warrant for our democracy. I suppose they don't teach that anymore. The free press doesn't exist any longer. The media are now part of the establishment. Five media conglomerates own the most newspapers, magazines, publishers, movie studio's and radio- and television channels, and the author calls those by their names : "These five conglomerates are Time Warner, by 2003 the largest media firm in the world; The Walt Disney Company; Murdoch's News Corporation, based in Australia; Viacom; and Bertelsmann, based in Germany. Today, none of the dominant media companies bother with dominance merely in a single medium. Their strategy has been to have major holdings in all the media, from newspapers to movie studios. This gives each of the five corporations and their leaders more communications power than was exercised by any despot or dictatorship in history".
Welcome to the "democracy" of the 21st century. Whoever is interested in a historical perspective of the brainwashing of the American people that started in the 20th century should also read Alex Carey Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Freedom and Liberty (History of Communication) .











