mass media

This book tracks the history of radio, television, newspapers, and periodicals.

This book examines the critical debates on media ownership, discussing deregulation on cross-ownership, communications laws, the creation of the FCC in 1934, diversity of ownership, avoiding conflicts of interest, and developments in media options.

Goldberg takes aim at the America Bashers (the cultural elites who look down their snobby noses at "ordinary" Americans), the Hollywood Blowhards (incredibly ditzy celebrities who think they're smart just because they're famous), the TV Schlockmeisters, the Intellectual Thugs (bigwigs at some of our best colleges), and many more. Some supposedly "serious" journalists also made the list. But Goldberg doesn't just round up the usual suspects we have come to know and detest. He also exposes some of the people who operate away from the limelight but still manage to pull a lot of strings and do all sorts of harm to our culture. Most of all, this book is about a country where as long as anything goes, as one of the good guys in the book puts it, sooner or later everything will go.--From publisher description.

Text and illustrations introduce the many kinds of communications and media, and how they have developed.

The cultural critic questions how modern people understand the concept of villainy, describing how his youthful idealism gave way to an adult sympathy with notorious cultural figures to offer insight into the appeal of anti-heroes.

A collection of twenty-four controversial essays that address issues associated with freedom of speech, censorship, and political expression around the world.