ITEM OVERVIEW
In this stellar myth-breaking book, McChesney argues that the major beneficiaries of the so-called Information Age are wealthy investors, advertisers, and a handful of enormous media, computer, and telecommunications corporations. Combining unprecedented detail on current events with historical sweep, in a book Noam Chomsky calls a "rich and penetrating study," he chronicles the waves of media mergers and acquisitions in the late 1990s. He reviews the corrupt and secretive enactment of public policies surrounding the internet, digital television, and public broadcasting, and addresses the gradual and ominous adaptation of the First Amendment as a means of shielding corporate media power and the wealthy—and debunks the myth that the market compels media firms to "give the people what they want."
Four hundred and fifty pages of an eye-opening call to action.
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