"A completely revised and updated edition of the best-selling classic The media monopoly"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 266-282) and index.

Common media for an uncommon nation -- The big five -- The Internet -- (Not) all the news that's fit to print -- All the news that fits? -- Paper in the digital age -- Rebellion and remedies -- "Won't they ever learn?" -- From mythology to theology -- "Dear Mr. President--" -- Only the affluent need apply -- Dr. Brandreth has gone to Harvard -- Afterword: paradise lost or paradise regained? Social justice in democracy.

Updating and revising his classic text of media criticism, Bagdikian (dean emeritus, Graduate School of Journalism, U. of California at Berkeley) continue to expose how the concentration of U.S. media into fewer and fewer hands, now just a handful of powerful corporations, has narrowed the political discourse of the country and served as a crucial instrument in shifting the political culture towards what just a few decades ago would have been considered the extreme right. He describes how this concentration has happened with the aid of government and explores its pernicious effects on the marketplace of ideas. Annotation #169;2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.