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Title: Megamedia: How Giant Corporations Dominate Mass Media, Distort Competition, and Endanger Democracy by Dean Alger ISBN: 0-8476-8389-3 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing (via NBN) Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: How Giant Corporations Endanger Democracy!
Comment: The First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press, but Alger has written a compelling book about how the press has increasingly been muzzled by the moguls who control newspapers, television, books, and magazines. The author has based this study on both primary and secondary sources, and he paints a frightening picture of how these megamedia mergers (involving Disney, Murdoch, Gates, and Time-Warner) have limited the kind of information the public receives. This is an extremely readable book about the corporate media takeovers by 12 multinational companies that now control most newspapers, television stations, and book companies and about the resulting impact on the distribution of information. Across the country, we see small local papers taken over by the larger newspaper chains, and the major losers are the small towns whose local news gets diluted. Censorship can sometimes come in the form of corporate caution. Alger (The Media and Politics, Prentice-Hall, 1989) offers steps that need to be taken to protect our freedoms. This work would be an excellent addition to larger public and academic libraries.'
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Book, Importan Subject
Comment: The domination of the media by large "mega"corporations has a far reaching impact on our "free" society. This book lucidly explains how this has come about, how it affects the nation, and what we might do as citizens to deal with this problem. This book is invaluable at shedding light on a problem that has been ignored (I wonder why) by most other major media outlets. It takes on the big guys and should be required reading for anyone who cares about the free exchange of ideas in a democratic society!!!
Rating: 5
Summary: saw it on GPA
Comment: This book was mentioned on a recent public TV special which investigated "free" speech. As a high school student with aspirations of entering the world of mass communications, I may now consider reading this book, in hopes of understanding manipulation of the public by the media.
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Title: Conglomerates and the Media by Erik Barnouw, Eric Barnouw, Thomas Frank ISBN: 1565844726 Publisher: New Press Pub. Date: September, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Breaking The News : How the Media Undermine American Democracy by James Fallows ISBN: 0679758569 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Media Monopoly 6th Edition by Ben H. Bagdikian ISBN: 0807061794 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 24 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.50 |
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Title: Corporate Media and the Threat to Democracy (Open Media Pamphlet Series) by Robert Waterman McChesney ISBN: 1888363479 Publisher: Seven Stories Press Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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Title: Seducing America : How Television Charms the Modern Voter by Roderick P. Hart ISBN: 0761916245 Publisher: Sage Publications Pub. Date: 27 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $41.95 |
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