| About the Authors |
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| Preface |
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| I. The Problem of Global Media |
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Media Scholars Denounce AOL-Time Warner Merger |
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1 | (16) |
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Media Scholars React to Merger, Compiled |
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17 | (16) |
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Delusions of Grandeur: The Real Problems of Concentration in Media |
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33 | (18) |
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| II. The Global Media Mergers |
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The Terms of Mergerment: AOL-Time Warner Merger Creates Media Juggernaut |
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51 | (8) |
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Vivendi Acquisition of Seagram Creates 2nd Largest Media Corporation |
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59 | (4) |
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Viacom + CBS = 3rd Largest Global Media Corporation |
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63 | (4) |
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World's Top 10 Media Corporations |
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67 | (12) |
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| III. Concentration of Ownership |
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New FCC Chief's Policies Will Spur Media Mergers |
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79 | (4) |
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Media Concentration in the U.S. |
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83 | (16) |
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Why Do Media Merge? The Paradox of Competition---Of Course! |
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99 | (12) |
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| IV. Media and Globalization |
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Can Authoritarian Information Control Survive the Global Media Revolution? |
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111 | (12) |
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Impediments to a Global Information Society |
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123 | (6) |
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Globalization's Challenge to the Press' Moral Imperative: Journalists Must Become Globalists |
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129 | (20) |
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| V. Media Performance |
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Media Merger News Coverage Fails Diversity Test: Study Shows Media Scholars Rarely Quoted |
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149 | (4) |
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Time Magazine, CNN Pass Diversity Test---At least for Now |
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153 | (2) |
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When Is a Terrorist a Terrorist? Reuters Policy Exposes Parochialism in U.S. Media |
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155 | (4) |
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The Press, the Public and Post-Monica-Gate Realities: Cataloging Culprits of News Media Performance |
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159 | (14) |
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| VI. Ted Turner and CNN |
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Turner: Journalism Should Solve Problems |
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173 | (6) |
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A 20-Year History of Cable News Network (1980-2000) Compiled |
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179 | (4) |
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Commentary: Ted Turner, Global Journalism and Objectivity |
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183 | (4) |
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Is the Fall of Ted Turner Good for Humankind? |
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187 | (8) |
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| VII. Media Managers |
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Media Executive Pay: It's Size, Not Performance, That Counts |
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195 | (10) |
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The Global Media Managerial Revolution |
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205 | (22) |
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| VIII. Internet and Technology |
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Internet Integrates People, Study Finds |
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227 | (4) |
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Internet Empowers Korean Social Movement |
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231 | (14) |
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Don't Get Off the Information Superhighway |
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245 | (6) |
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Murphy's Law Is Back: Qwest Erroneously Huts Down DSL Service Not Once, But Twice! |
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251 | (6) |
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| IX. Media Research |
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AOL-Time Warner Merger Underscores Need for More Research |
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257 | (6) |
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Has Critical Theory Lost Its Critical Edge? |
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263 | (10) |
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| X. Media and Democracy |
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High Tech War Keeps High Tech TV Journalism at Arms Length: But Denying Media Access Subverts Democracy |
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273 | (14) |
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The Free and Unfree Press of South Korea: A Primer on Internal and Indirect Control |
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287 | (16) |
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Are Global Media Destroying Democracy? |
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| Index |
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