The Media Monopoly
- ISBN-10
- 080706162X
- ISBN-13
- 9780807061626
- Category
- Business & Economics / Mergers & Acquisitions
- Pages
- 282
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1983
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Author
- Ben H. Bagdikian
Description
Explains how the media are tightly controlled and manipulated in the United States today, and examines the fifty corporations that control American communications
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