A01=Dean Alger
Author_Dean Alger
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Product details
- ISBN 9780847683895
- Weight: 560g
- Publication Date: 05 Nov 1998
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Media moguls such as Rupert Murdoch and Bill Gates and corporate conglomerates such as Time-Warner and Disney are increasingly dominating the world of media - from TV to radio, to newspapers and books, movies and even the Internet. This text suggests that because only a handful of organizations control the media, the population suffers both as media consumers and citizens. Censorship creeps in not from government, but from the protection of conglomerate interest. The text looks at the ominous impact of this control of the mass media, and suggests ways to hold big corporate media responsible for not only increasing diversity but also presenting society with fair and unbiased information.
Dean Alger is the author of The Media and Politics and co-author of Crosstalk. He has served as a Fellow in the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics, and Policy in Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
