The Media Monopoly
- ISBN-10
- 0807061794
- ISBN-13
- 9780807061794
- Category
- Social Science / Media Studies
- Pages
- 288
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Beacon Press (MA)
- Author
- Ben H. Bagdikian
Description
This edition features a dramatic new preface, detailing the media landscape as we enter the twenty-first century, and includes an entirely new examination of the implications of new technologies."--BOOK JACKET.
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