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Since this classic on corporate control of the media was first published in 1997, the number of corporations dominating our media has shrunk from fifty to merely five. Once called "alarmist", Bagdikian's claims are uncanny and chilling in their accuracyl This much-needed sixth edition follows up on the digital revolution, revealing startling details of a new communications cartel within the United States.
- Sales Rank: #1963489 in Books
- Published on: 2000-03-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
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- Binding: Paperback
- 344 pages
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"Since its publication in 1983, Ben. H. Bagdikian's The Media Monopoly has served as a bible for students of media-industry concentration." -- Willamette Week, Portland, Oregon Nov. 8, 2000
About the Author
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Ben H. Bagdikian is dean emeritus of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.
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36 of 36 people found the following review helpful.
do you still think the government governs?
By A. Saban
In his book, The Media Monopoly, Ben Bagdikian writes about the increasing centralization of the media by a small number of private organizations. He explains the concept, causes and consequences of the monopoly in the mass media. To begin with, the author points out that only twenty-three corporations own the eighty percent of American media (p. 21). They invest millions in different types of media for primarily two reasons: "money and influence" (p. 5). The power of these conglomerations is such that they can strongly influence the political and social views of the people, mainly through corruption and subtle persuasion techniques.
Monopoly is defined as the exclusive ownership of a service or a commodity. Ben Bagdikian applies the concept of monopoly to the media industry. Giant companies own almost every mass medium: "newspapers, magazines, books, radios, broadcast television, cable systems and programming, movies, recordings [and] video cassettes" (p. xiii). Examples of this phenomenon are Capital Cities/ABC, Gannett and Time Warner corporations, among others (p. 21,22). By buying every different medium, these powerful giants communicate messages based on the owner's interest; thus, narrowing down the available sources of information. For instance, ABC, CBS and NBC networks control the majority of the national television. In addition, another consequence of the media monopoly is that as a result of private ownership, media turned into a business. As Bagidikian says, "now magazines aren't started with the desire of someone to express what he believes; [instead], they become bland to avoid controversy" (p. 112, 85). For example, "newspapers get seventy five percent of their revenues from ads, general circulation magazines fifty percent, and broadcasting almost a hundred percent" (p.115)
The author states that one of the causes of the media monopoly is that publishers and broadcast producers never talk of the present condition of the media ownership. Gannett's editors would state slogans such as "ten choices for the reader" or "Gannett: a world of different ideas where freedom speaks", when actually, the opposite is happening (p. 75). Since 1970, Gannett has been buying local newspapers from many different regions. The strategy is simple: before buying a locally owned newspaper they promise to continue with its local news and values. They also assure that they will make it better. However, after buying it, they reduce its staff and local news, and tell the current publisher "how much he/she must produce in profits"; thus, they turn the community newspaper into one more link of their big chain where money is what counts (p. 78).
However, the media monopoly not only affects people's social views. When talking about politics, as the United States lacks of a national daily press, Bagdikian implies that "no national news medium can, by itself, serve the American voter" (p. 17). Consequently, private media guide every American citizen at the time of elections. Unfortunately, as profit is always the most prominent interest of these corporations, there are some corrupt cases in media and political history. The case Nixon - Berlin is the example he uses to illustrate how not only media depends on politics, but also how politics depends on media. When Richard Berlin was in trouble because of an antimonopoly law, he asked President Richard Nixon to exempt him and his friends from it. He wrote the President a letter in which he clearly stated how his chains would either help or not President Nixon in his political image depending on his cooperation. Of course, Berlin and his friends were quickly released from the antimonopoly law, and "President Nixon was given his political reward, the support of media organizations" (p. 98). Bagdikian's writes a clear critique about the current American media system. The role of the media has turned from an informational and editorial role to a space where to place the greatest possible number of ads in order to increase profitability. Furthermore, the author can certainly explain the serious social and political consequences that the media monopoly can have by using Gannett's and President Nixon's instances. By explaining every part of the American media monopoly, the author develops a tremendous research to prove his thesis: media are able to shape almost every aspect of our society; hence, almost every aspect of people's life.
I consider The Media Monopoly a powerful and convincing statement about the present condition of American media. Being aware of how so few corporations are able to control almost every aspect of our society, is the first step to open people's mind so they can start analyzing media effects with more criticism. At least I've tried to open mine. Also, amazed by some facts the author provides, I've started telling my friends about how the idea of a controversial media we have is now turning into a pyramid were a small top controls everything below it. Disillusion is my feeling after finishing the book. I knew that there are always persuasion techniques in most messages the media transmits; but I wasn't completely aware of how media conglomerates can affect us so powerfully. In order to continue living in a sane democracy, we need reliable and objective information. Otherwise, our citizen's life turns into a fictitious world were we could lose our freedom of thoughts.
30 of 30 people found the following review helpful.
An accurate but stunning portrayal of media conglomeration
By Davis Bailey
With the Universal-Polygram, Viacom-CBS and AOL-Time Warner merger/acquisitions in progress, one read of Ben Bagdikian's "The Media Monopoly" and the author's stunning vision of the world's media conglomerates dwindling in size and scope of unbiased content, becomes a grim reality. Without any legal or regulatory intervention, this merging of Old and New Media companies can only hurt free enterprise and ultimately the consumers. With the recent news, Bagdikian's logic remains to be true. "The Media Monopoly" is a masterpiece as Bagdikian explicitly details what drives the modern mass media machine: capitalism via advertising as opposed to content.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful.
What would you promote if you owned the media!?
By A Customer
This book completely cured me of activism. It explains all of societies problems so clearly that you will be dumbfounded as to the amazing simplicity of the solutions. With far less sophisticated and pervasive technology, Hitler was able to convince the so called aryans that Jews were infact rodents. How could this be? Media Molopoly explains it all very simply. People form opinions based on the information that they receive. Edward Bernays figured that out in the 20's and coined the term "Public Relations". Hitlers propaganda minister had all of Bernays books on his book shelf. The process is simple and effective. Our system of gov't is based on the transmission of misinformation. This book reveals things like that, and quite frankly, the book is just about as valuable as a 4 year college degree. It's the most important book i've ever read.
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