 | Conglomerates and the Media by Erik Barnouw
Buy new: $14.95 / Used from: $0.01 Scholarly research on the consolidation of ownership by fewer corporations.
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 | The New Media Monopoly by Ben H. Bagdikian Den Emeritus
Buy new: $18.90 / Used from: $3.97 The best of the current crop of books on media ownership consolidation. See also Robert McChesney.
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 | News Incorporated: Corporate Media Ownership And Its Threat To Democracy
Buy new: $28.98 / Used from: $0.96 Like the subtitle says: Corporate Media Ownership and its threat to Democracy.
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 | The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication Politics in the Twenty-First Century by Robert W. McChesney
Buy new: $9.50 / Used from: $2.00 McChesney and Bagdikian are the leading theorists of media consolidation theory.
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 | Media Control, Second Edition: The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda (Open Media) by Noam Chomsky
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $3.48 Chomsky is a prolific, if controversial, writer on a wide variety of cultural issues.
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 | Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination by Neal Gabler
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $4.95 Excellent Bio of the Originator of the T heme Park and Animation.
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 | House of Dreams: The Bingham Family of Louisville by Marie Brenner
Buy used from: $0.01 A case study of the way local ownership of a newspaper (The Louisville Courier-Journal) is perverted by greed and ambition.
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 | Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way by Ken Auletta
Buy new: $19.00 / Used from: $0.01 Ken Auletta examines the Big Three TV Networks and concludes (surprise!)that the pursuit of money and profits is behind their decline.
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| Who Killed Cbs?: The Undoing of America's Number One News Network by Peter J. Boyer
Buy used from: $0.01 Again: Corporate greed corrupted the Golden Network made famous by Gleason, Murrow, and others.
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 | Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World by Jack Goldsmith
Buy new: $15.72 / Used from: $3.60 The issue of Intellectual Property and who controls it.
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 | All the News That's Fit to Sell: How the Market Transforms Information into News by James T. Hamilton
Buy new: $25.95 / Used from: $15.52 The premise here is that News is a commodity...just like soybeans, pork belly futures, or barrels of oil.
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 | The Global Village: Transformations in World Life and Media in the 21st Century (Communication and Society (New York, N.Y.).) by Marshall McLuhan
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 | Media, Markets, and Democracy (Communication, Society and Politics) by C. Edwin Baker
Buy new: $36.99 / Used from: $4.43 Academic Discussion of Economic Theories of Media Marketing.
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