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Books : The New Media MonopolyIn association with Amazon.comby: Ben H. Bagdikian  List Price: $21.00 Amazon.com's Price: $18.90 You Save: $2.10 (10%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 338.47302230973 EAN: 9780807061879 ISBN: 0807061875 Label: Beacon Press Manufacturer: Beacon Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 368 Publication Date: May 15, 2004 Publisher: Beacon Press Studio: Beacon Press Sales Rank: 90321 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: "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 "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? Praise for the First Edition of The Media Monopoly: "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 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - MUST READ!One of the most insightful books written on the pervasive and almost criminal nature of mass media in todays world. A must read for anyone that wants to become more informed. Rating: - Excellent and InformativeWith "The New Media Monopoly", Ben Bagdikian delivers one of the best books on the modern state of the media ever written. He describes in fascinating detail the events that have surrounded the growth in the concentration of media ownership. Unlike some other texts covering the same topic, Bagdikian's writing is very readable and captivating. However, he does seem to provide more anecdotal evidence to support his observations than hard numbers. I would highly recommend accompanying this book ... Read More Rating:  - Mass Media for DummiesWARNING: THIS BOOK IS NOT TO BE READ AS A LEISURE OR PLEASURABLE PASSTIME ACTIVITY. THIS PRODUCT IS MEANT ONLY AS A SOURCE OF INFORMATION. ANY USE OTHER THAN THAT RECOMMENDED MAY RESULT IN PERMANENT LOSS OF PERSONALITY. While he does present well researched and wholly coherent arguments, author Ben H. Bagdikian falls short of allowing any sense of enjoyment to permeate the reading of his revised edition of The New Media Monopoly. The writing style comes off as rather rigid for much of the ... Read More Rating: - Critical but Uneven Manifesto on the Corporate MediaThis is the newly updated version of Bagdikian's classic tome *The Media Monopoly* which first appeared in 1983 and was prescient enough to reach six editions by 2000. While dismissed as alarmism, with each edition of the book the problem of corporate media consolidation became worse, and now we are down to just five mega-conglomerates controlling almost all media content, and subsequently most political and social thought among the American public. Bagdikian is an expert commentator on the effects ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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