The Media Monopoly.

• Position: Brief Article

It's been ten years since Ben H. Bagdikian, a member of The Progressive's Editorial Advisory Board, published the first edition of The Media Monopoly, which has become the classic account of corporate control of U.S. news media. In it, he recounted how fifty firms earned more than half the revenue from the dissemination of information. Well, the number is down to twenty now, and Bagdikian is back. This is the fourth edition, an updated version of how the news is...