Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media

Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media
ISBN-10
0805078193
ISBN-13
9780805078190
Series
Fighting for Air
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
339
Language
English
Published
2007-01-09
Publisher
Macmillan
Author
Eric Klinenberg

Description

Describes how the impact of corporate ownership and control of local media has transformed American political and cultural life, leading to an age of canned programming and virtual DJs, arguing that the demise of local media can be linked to the policies of the federal government, which have ceded control to media conglomerates.

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