Ben H. Bagdikian

When the first edition of The Media Monopoly was published in 1983, critics called Ben Bagdikian's warnings about the chilling effects of corporate ownership and mass advertising on the nation's news "alarmist." Since then, the number of corporations controlling most of America's daily newspapers, magazines, radio and television stations, book publishers, and movie companies has dwindled from fifty to ten to five. The most respected critique of modern mass media ever issued is now published in a completely updated and revised twentieth anniversary edition. 'Ben Bagdikian has written the first great media book of the twenty-first century. The New Media Monopoly will provide a roadmap to understanding how we got here and where we need to go to make matters better.' -Robert McChesney, author of Rich Media, Poor Democracy

A Completely Revised and Updated Edition With Seven New Chapters

The New Media Monopoly

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.

The Media Monopoly

"'Caged' is the true, previously untold drama of the longest and most peaceful strike by prisoners in the history of the federal prison system. In Pennsylvania's Lewisburg penitentiary in 1972, eight prisoner, elected by other inmates - at the warden's suggestion - to represent them in the strike, were betrayed by the prison staff and condemned to indefinite solitary confinement...Because [the author] had written on prisoners for the Washington Post, the eight prisoners at Lewisburg sought his aid...Convinced that the federal prisons had a lot to hide, he spent the next two years corresponding with and interviewing the prisoners and their families, parole officers, judges, and even the victims of their crimes. One prisoner was placed in solitary confinement because he talked to him. Some of their letters from prison were destroyed. Other material was secreted out of prison. The shocking and compelling story of 'Caged' is the result."--Jacket.

Ben H. Bagdikian

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