Fighting for Air : The Battle to Control America's Media (CD-Audio)

from addict

"Eric Klinenberg has written an extraordinary and powerful account of the devastating elimination of localism in U.S. media and journalism, and how Americans from all walks of life are rising up to challenge the great media crisis that grips our nation today. Brilliantly written and tightly argue...

from rivkat

From true stories of local radio stations that have been taken over by big companies and automated so that emergency messages can't get out when they're desperately needed to stories of politicians bought by big media companies (who also make sure that reporters don't report about the consequence...

from JFBallenger

Klinenberg provides a detailed and compelling investigation into the battle between giant corporations who are systematically extending their grasp on every mass media portal from newspapers to the internet to the to create economies of scale that will maximize profits and a motley of citizen gro...

from JFBallenger

Klinenberg provides a detailed and compelling investigation into the battle between giant corporations who are systematically extending their grasp on every mass media portal from newspapers to the internet to the to create economies of scale that will maximize profits and a motley of citizen gro...