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Media moguls such as Rupert Murdoch and Bill Gates and corporate conglomerates such as Time-Warner and Disney are increasingly dominating the world of media - from TV to radio, to newspapers and books, movies and even the Internet. This text suggests that because only a handful of organizations control the media, the population suffers both as media consumers and citizens. Censorship creeps in not from government, but from the protection of conglomerate interest. The text looks at the ominous impact of this control of the mass media, and suggests ways to hold big corporate media responsible for not only increasing diversity but also presenting society with fair and unbiased information.
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Alger's volume prompted this reviewer to pause time after time to fill margins with exclamatory symbols and notations of agreement and appreciation. In encyclopedic detail and "mince-no-words" prose, Alger provides an unsettling, much-needed look at "how giant corporations dominate mass media, distort competition, and endanger democracy." Enhancing the discourse of Ben Bagdikian (Media Monopoly, 1983) and others who have braved encounters with huge corporations bent on devouring the world's mass communication, telecommunications, and entertainment industries, Alger unravels complex machinations and reveals data on holdings, interrelationships, and connections to big government, military, and business. The author sets everything in digestible economic and political contexts and shows how megamedia perpetuate an uneven playing field and economic competition, narrow the marketplace of political and other ideas, and take advantage of special privileges accorded journalists in the US Constitution. Especially useful are his chronology, "The March of Megamedia," and up-to-date listings of holdings of the world's dominant media empires. Alger devotes one chapter (and scattered mentions) to the international dimension; certainly much more needs to be written about megamedia of Asia and Latin America in particular. One of the decade's most significant books in mass communications, Megamedia takes on some of the most powerful forces on the planet. All collections. J. A. Lent Temple University
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The First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press, but Alger has written a compelling book about how the press has increasingly been muzzled by the moguls who control newspapers, television, books, and magazines. The author has based this study on both primary and secondary sources, and he paints a frightening picture of how these megamedia mergers (involving Disney, Murdoch, Gates, and Time-Warner) have limited the kind of information the public receives. This is an extremely readable book about the corporate media takeovers by 12 multinational companies that now control most newspapers, television stations, and book companies and about the resulting impact on the distribution of information. Across the country, we see small local papers taken over by the larger newspaper chains, and the major losers are the small towns whose local news gets diluted. Censorship can sometimes come in the form of corporate caution. Alger (The Media and Politics, Prentice-Hall, 1989) offers steps that need to be taken to protect our freedoms. This work would be an excellent addition to larger public and academic libraries.Richard P. Hedlund, formerly with Ashland Community Coll., KY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.