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  Title

  Fighting for air : the battle to control America's media

  Author

  Klinenberg, Eric.  

  Publisher:

  Metropolitan Books,

  Pub date:

  2007.

  Pages:

  339 p. ;

  ISBN:

  0805078193

  Item info:

  1 copy available at Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library.
  

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    Sugar Grove Campus --Todd Library	Copies	Material	Location	Map
    HE8689.8 .K625 2007	1	Book	Available, On shelf

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  ISBN:

  0805078193

  ISBN:

  9780805078190

  029:

  YDXCP 2464935

  Personal Author:

  Klinenberg, Eric.

  Title:

  Fighting for air : the battle to control America's media / Eric Klinenberg.

  Edition:

  1st ed.

  Publication info:

  New York : Metropolitan Books, 2007.

  Physical description:

  339 p. ; 25 cm.

  Contents:

  Introduction:The empty studio -- In the public interest -- Remote control -- Clear channel comes to town -- News from nowhere -- Owning it all -- Chaining the alternatives -- The Net and the news -- Fighting for air -- The media and democracy -- Low power to the people -- Conclusion: The digital frontier.

  Summary:

  An investigative work on the corporate takeover of local news and what it means for all Americans. Sociologist Klinenberg takes us into the world of preprogrammed radio shows, empty television news studios, and copycat newspapers to show how corporate ownership and control of local media has remade American political and cultural life. Klinenberg argues that the demise of truly local media stems from the federal government's malign neglect, as the agencies charged with ensuring diversity and open competition have ceded control to the very conglomerates that consistently undermine these values and goals. "Big media" may not be here to stay, however. This book reveals a rising generation of new media activists and citizen journalists--a coalition of liberals and conservatives--who are demanding and even creating the local coverage they need and deserve.--From publisher description.

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  Subject term:

  Broadcasting policy--United States.

  Subject term:

  Mass media policy--United States.

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