We the Media

A unique collaboration of over one hundred media organizations, critics, and activists, We the Media is filled with up-to-the-minute facts, figures, and commentary on the state of the media today. In irreverent and informative sections on ownership, commercialization, content, and access, the book makes plain the real dangers of increasing media concentration, and highlights efforts throughout the country to combat it.

Acknowledgments

x

(1)

Navigation Tools

xi

Introduction

1

(3)

Don Hazen, Director of the Institute for Alternative Journalism

I. Ownership & Concentration

4

(34)

1. The Media Transformed

4

(8)

2. The Media Goes Global

12

(6)

3. Privatization Madness

18

(8)

4. Incredible Shrinking Media: Television & Cable

26

(12)

II. Commercialization

38

(60)

1. Advertising

38

(24)

2. The Box

62

(10)

3. The Image Factory

72

(7)

4. Incredible Shrinking Media: Books

79

(9)

5. Selling Vice

88

(10)

III. Content

98

(43)

1. Glorification of Violence

98

(11)

2. Representation & Distortion

109

(22)

3. Incredible Shrinking Media: Radio

131

(10)

IV. Access

141

(37)

1. Behind the Scenes

141

(5)

2. Who Gets to Speak

146

(12)

3. Incredible Shrinking Media: Newspapers

158

(4)

4. Public Interest Journalism

162

(16)

V. The Next Frontier

178

(21)

1. Democracy for Whom?

178

(4)

2. Incredible Shrinking Media: Internet

182

(4)

3. The Net

186

(8)

4. Feed Your Mind

194

(5)

Activist Resources

199

(12)

Resource Rolodex

211

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