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- From Chapter 16 (the Media) in Sexton's _The War on Labor and the Left_:
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- Conservative views are distributed to the public via the
- business-owned mass media -- a media more tightly monopolized by
- big business than in any comparable democracy.
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- In 1982, only fifty corporate giants controlled half or more of
- the U.S. media, including magazines, daily newspapers, television
- stations, radio stations, book publishers, and movie studios, and
- these fifty had interlocking financial interests with other giant
- corporations and with a few large international banks. By 1986,
- the fifty were down to only twenty-nine, and by 1987, to
- twenty-six...
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- The media monopoly makes an absurdity of conservative claims about
- "freedom of the press" and bring into question the major
- constitutional privileges grated the press on the premise of
- diversity and open competition.
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- _The War on Labor and the Left.
- Understanding America's Unique Conservatism_
- By Professor Patricia Cayo Sexton
- Westview Press -- Boulder, San Francisco, Oxford
- ISBN 0-8133-1062-8 ///\\\ ISBN 0-8133-1063-6 (pbk)
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