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Media critic and former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley. He played a role in obtaining and publishing portions of The Pentagon Papers and is the author of The Media Monopoly. ...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/interviews/bagdikian1.html
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- Martha Goes Mad
Some Democrats are worried Martha Coakley has been too methodical in the sixweek sprint to Tuesdays special election, the Associated Press reports, referring to the Democratic nominee for the Senate seat that Ted Kennedy held until his death. ...
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/
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- The Futile Horn
I am the Director of University Television at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. Im also an Instructor in the Department of Communication. I teach courses in Video Production, Broadcast Announcing, Oral Communication, and Mass Media. ...
http://chris.shumway.tripod.com/
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- Blithe Spirit
A year ago, Mary Slusser was dreadfully upset about her church. The Anglican Communion was seething, as issues of sexual morality divided it. Two African churches, Nigeria and Uganda, were leading a charge, with a view to schism or expulsion of liber ...
http://blithe-spirit.com/
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- Hold On to Your Phone Bill
Commentary on lack of FCC concern about the effects of consolidation of telephone and broadcasting services on consumer interests and democracy. From Mother Jones. ...
http://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/1999/10/fotc6.html
| | - Robert W McChesney
The American media system is spinning out of control in a hypercommercialized frenzy. Fewer than ten transnational media conglomerates dominate much of our media; fewer than two dozen account for the overwhelming majority of our newspapers, magazines ...
http://bostonreview.net/BR23.3/mcchesney.html
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- Television Thing
It is by now a truism that television has usurped the traditional role of political parties; more than that, it sometimes seems to have all but devoured the political process. ...
http://www.jscheuer.com/essays/dissent.htm
| | - Ellen Hume
Ellen Hume is an Annenberg Senior Fellow. She served as Executive Director of the Joan Shorenstein Barone Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where she taught as well. She analyzes ...
http://www.ellenhume.com/articles/tabloids_contents.html
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- Consent American Style
Many cultural critics, such as Michael Parenti, Noam Chomsky, and Ben Bagdikian, have pointed out that in order for American power to carry out the atrocities it has perpetrated abroad, it needs to manufacture the consent of the American people. That ...
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Media/Consent_AmerStyle.html
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