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	BEN BAGDIKIAN
		professional newsman since 1941, Ben Bagdikian, the dean of American media critics and the former dean of Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, is one of the most respected figures in American journalism.
		In 1983 Bagdikian published "The Media Monopoly" which revealed the fast-moving media conglomeration that was putting more and more media corporations in fewer and fewer hands with each new merger.
		Bagdikian, "the dean of American journalism," warned that deregulation of the media under Reagan's FCC was leading to corporate ownership and monopolization of the media.
	www.findthelinks.com /writers/bagdikian/ben_bagdikian.htm (340 words)

	On the Media
		Ben Bagdikian's original The Media Monopoly is an examination of the concentration of American mass media outlets in the hands of very few corporations.
		BEN BAGDIKIAN: I have to say that every edition of the book I've put out was obsolete the day it came out, because I have, in every edition, under-estimated the arrogance and power and the, what I regard as disservice of the corporations as they became more powerful.
		BEN BAGDIKIAN: I completely agree that it is the bright light on the horizon, and it has had a very real effect.
	www.onthemedia.org /transcripts/transcripts_071604_toldusso.html (655 words)

	BEN BAGDIKIAN
		Bagdikian: 60 Minutes, in terms of broadcast, was the best of times and the worst of times.
		Bagdikian: Yeah, or the crusader who pokes the finger in your eye on the screen.
		Bagdikian: If we think about our modern mass news, mass production news being about 120 years old in this country, then the treatment of news about tobacco and disease is one of the original sins of the media.
	www.findthelinks.com /writers/bagdikian/interview_bagdikian.htm (2935 words)

	The new masters of the universe
		Bagdikian's contribution in part derives from his dual identity: on the one hand, a working journalist who knows his profession from within, and on the other, a scholar capable of sustained research under conditions of academic rigour.
		Bagdikian endorses the view of James Britton in his 1970 study, Learning and Language, that, given the kaleidoscopic character of experience, humans need to group events on the basis of similarity; without this, nothing can be made of the present moment nor can expectations or predictions be entertained.
		Bagdikian documents his argument with a series of case stories which buttress his position and enhance the accessibility of his study.
	www.hindu.com /fline/fl1623/16230910.htm (1776 words)

	In The Media Monopoly, author Ben Bagdikian explores the way in which media functions
		Ironically, Bagdikian predicted that if media mergers were to continue at the then-current rate, the 50 company figure would drastically drop; his prophecy was correct, and today only six companies control most of the media outlets.
		Bagdikian details several examples in which journalists were fired and stories held simply because the subject was in some way injurious or potentially injurious to the parent company.
		Bagdikian’s final caution is this: by creating a narrow monopoly of media owners we have also create a narrow realm of coverage.
	www.is.wayne.edu /mnissani/media/Bagdirev.htm (1338 words)

	Untitled Document
		Bagdikian has a long list of journalism credentials: winner of the Pulitzer Prize; the former dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley; former assistant managing editor of the Washington Post at the time of the Pentagon Papers.
		Bagdikian writes in the introductory chapter of the new edition of the book, "the awesome power of the contemporary mass media has in one generation been a major factor in reversing the country's progressive political, social and economic momentum of the twentieth century.
		Bagdikian added, that the neo-conservative advisors to George Bush had blinders on when they decided to invade Iraq last year without a plan, only to face the possibility of ignominious defeat in a manner presaged by Tolstoy in War and Peace.
	www.gradethenews.org /pages2/bagdikianpv.htm (840 words)

	Ben Bagdikian Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ben Bagdikian has worked at high levels in the profession of journalism and the media in general.
		Bagdikian’s career includes years as National Correspondent for The Columbia Journalism Review, a onetime commentator for CBS TV, and is the former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.
		Among Bagdikian’s awards have been The Peabody Award (broadcasting’s “Pulitzer”) for research and critiques of broadcast commentary; a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship; a Citation of Merit as Journalism’s Most Perceptive Critic,” awarded by the American Society of Journalism School Administrators; and the James Madison Award, by the American Library Association Coalition on Government Information.
	www.benbagdikian.com /Docs/bio.htm (274 words)

	blogJosh: Jack Shafer vs. Ben Bagdikian
		Bagdikian, a University of California-Berkeley professor, is author (several...
		Bagdikian, a University of California-Berkeley professor, is author (several times over) of The Media Monopoly, the seventh edition of which was published last summer.
		Bagdikian's premise is basically that there are five companies that control the vast majority of the media we consume.
	joshshear.com /blogjosh/archives/2005/03/jack_shafer_vs.html (517 words)

	THE PEOPLE & THE PRESS Advisory Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ben Bagdikian, the “dean of American media critics” and Dean Emeritus of Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, is one of the most respected figures in American journalism.
		Bagdikian’s landmark work, “The Media Monopoly,” is the most famous book among media scholars in the past 23 years.
		Bagdikian warned that deregulation of the media under Reagan’s Federal Communications Commission was leading to corporate ownership and monopolization of the media.
	www.simonpure.com /tpia_board.htm (2856 words)

	ActionScript-ToolBox: by Ben Bagdikian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's St Matthew Passion on a ukulele: The instrument is too crude for the work, for the audience and for the performer.
		Ben Haig Bagdikian (born 1920, Marash, Ottoman Empire; now Turkey) has made journalism his profession since 1941.
		Based on notebook diaries of Ben Bagdikian's older sister Lydia, 1997.
	www.actionscript-toolbox.com /quotes/author/Ben-Bagdikian.html (368 words)

	Ben Bagdikian interview (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It was the best of times in the sense that it did a lot of serious investigative reporting.
		Bagdikian: Oh, I think we do it in two ways.
		First is the spectacular business of their threatening CBS and ABC with 15 billion dollar lawsuits, and their shameful retreat.
	www.pbs.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/interviews/bagdikian1.html (2915 words)

	Amazon.com: The Media Monopoly 6th Edition: Books: Ben H. Bagdikian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Once called "alarmist", Bagdikian's claims are uncanny and chilling in their accuracyl This much-needed sixth edition follows up on the digital revolution, revealing startling details of a new communications cartel within the United States.
		Bagdikian proves that the media have been enslaved to the will of advertisers for decades anyway, as most forms of media make far more money from selling ads than from the members of the public who consume their offerings.
		Although Bagdikian is now more than eighty years old, this work would benefit significantly from a thorough re-write of the main text, rather than the piecemeal additions to the foreword and afterword that supposedly indicate a "new" edition.
	www.amazon.com /Media-Monopoly-6th-Ben-Bagdikian/dp/0807061794 (2004 words)

	Ben Bagdikian on the media monopoly : LA IMC
		Ben Bagdikian, former reporter, Pulitzer prize winner and former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley, says that private television and radio broadcasters have stolen the airwaves from us, with the collusion of federal regulators who are supposed to regulate them in the public interest.
		Bagdikian spoke in Pasadena on Friday, November 15, 2002 at Throop Memorial Unitarian Church.
		The event Bagdikian was put together by the Democratic Media Legal Project, a joint project of the Unitarian Universalists for a Just Economic Community and the Cultural Environment Movement, working with attorneys from the National Lawyer’s Guild and the National Coalition of Concerned Legal Professionals, in conjunction with the Media Alliance of San Francisco.
	la.indymedia.org /news/2003/01/27081.php (446 words)

	Critique on Bagdikian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Since the viewpoint of Ben Bagdikian is almost a complete contrast with that of Shafer, it would be only natural for me to disagree with Bagdikian as well.
		Bagdikian writes, “But today the power of an almost inescapable modern multi-media in the hands of a few giant entrepreneurs has reached dimensions that deserve serious public pressure to arouse government regulatory agencies from their prolonged hibernation” (Bagdikian 2).
		Bagdikian also states, “But today there is an even smaller number of dominant firms—six—(even excluding the AOL-Time Warner deal), and those six have more communications power than all the combined fifty leading firms of sixteen years earlier.
	www.louisville.edu /~gejohn01/bagdikiancritique.htm (442 words)

	mediageek: Ben Bagdikian Updates His Classic Analysis of Media Monopoly
		Bagdikian has updated the book regularly since first publishing it in 1983.
		The Media Monopoly is the best place to start if you want to learn more about how the corporate media conglomerates operate and control nearly every form and facet of the global media, from print publishing and music to film and television.
		Bagdikian's analysis is clear and logical, and his research is top-notch.
	www.mediageek.org /archives/002211.html (238 words)

	OJR article: The Media Critic: "News is a problem because it's not recyclable"
		Ben Bagdikian, 82-year-old former journalism dean at the University of California at Berkeley and author of the book "The Media Monopoly," believes that the rise of media behemoths like AOL Time Warner and Viacom pose a threat to society and the nation's democratic underpinnings.
		The result is a landscape of media giants whose political clout in Washington should raise alarm about their collective power as well as concerns about the independent watchdog role that the news media play in covering the federal government, he says.
		Bagdikian recalls the high-minded promises made by the architects of the AOL Time Warner merger two years ago that the union would not affect news coverage and would offer customers more content choices, not fewer.
	www.ojr.org /ojr/lasica/1022199688.php (918 words)

	The media monotony. - By Jack Shafer - Slate Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ben H. Bagdikian started writing The Media Monopoly two decades ago, and like a latter-day Walt Whitman, he can't bring himself to finish his magnum opus.
		In his January 2004 Reason cover story, Ben Compaine calls Bagdikian's media consolidation worries "overblown." The media industry isn't highly concentrated, he explains, running the numbers through one widely accepted economic yardstick (the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index).
		As misguided as Bagdikian is about the perils of media conglomeration, he makes excellent sense when barking about the political games the corporate owners of radio and broadcast TV stations play.
	slate.msn.com /id/2104777 (1699 words)

	The Media Monopoly by Ben Haig Bagdikian - Corporate Control of Public Thought
		This fifth edition of the classic work on control of the modern media describes the digital revolution and reveals startling details of a new communications cartel within the United States.
		In his book, The Media Monopoly, Ben Bagdikian writes about the increasing centralization of the media by a small number of private organizations.
		Ben Bagdikian applies the concept of monopoly to the media industry.
	www.ftrbooks.net /psych/mind_control/media_monopoly.htm (800 words)

	BEN H. BAGDIKIAN: JOURNALIST FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
		BEN H. Ben H. Bagdikian has been a reporter and editor, author of books, former assistant managing editor for National News of the Washington Post, and former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.
		He is the author of several books, three of them published by Beacon Press: In the Midst of Plenty: The Poor in America, The Media Monopoly, and Double Vision: Reflections on my Heritage, Life, and Profession.
		The Media Monopoly by Ben H. Bagdikian (5th ed., Boston: Beacon Press, 1997).
	www.harvardsquarelibrary.org /unitarians/bagdikian.html (4695 words)

	Amazon.de: The Media Monopoly: English Books: Ben H. Bagdikian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		With the Universal-Polygram, Viacom-CBS and AOL-Time Warner merger/acquisitions in progress, one read of Ben Bagdikian's "The Media Monopoly" and the author's stunning vision of the world's media conglomerates dwindling in size and scope of unbiased content, becomes a grim reality.
		With the recent news, Bagdikian's logic remains to be true.
		Bagdikian's writes a clear critique about the current American media system.
	www.amazon.de /Media-Monopoly-Ben-H-Bagdikian/dp/080706162X (1486 words)

	Amazon.com: The New Media Monopoly: Books: Ben H. Bagdikian (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bagdikian is an expert commentator on the effects this has on popular democracy and social justice, and the problem has become so bad that it became necessary to create a completely revised text, rather than just a "new" edition of the old book with some tacked-on updates.
		These are subjects in which Bagdikian is certainly proficient, and they are the root causes of the horrific state of American media.
		However, Bagdikian is still the originator and when he's focused, his insights into the social and political damage wrought by our corporate media are still powerful and prescient.
	www.amazon.com /New-Media-Monopoly-Ben-Bagdikian/dp/0807061875 (1757 words)

	Media and Advertising - Global Issues
		Ben Bagdikian, a prominent media critic, and author of the well-acclaimed book The Media Monopoly, provides more detail and examples.
		In Chapter 6 of his book, for example, Bagdikian describes in detail the pressure on media companies to change content (to “dumb down”) and to shape content based on the demographics of the audiences.
		Bagdikian also goes on to show that mass advertising also “introduced a new factor in selling: It began to prevent competition” and that it would “negate the classical theory of supply and demand” that was described by Adam Smith (see p.143).
	www.globalissues.org /HumanRights/Media/Corporations/Ads.asp (3238 words)

	Powell's Books - Media Monopoly 6TH Edition by Ben H Bagdikian
		Since this classic on corporate control of the media was first published in 1983, the number of corporations dominating our media has shrunk from fifty to merely six.
		Once called "alarmist," Bagdikian's claims are uncanny and chilling in their accuracy.
		Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ben H. Bagdikian is dean emeritus of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=62-0807061794-0 (321 words)

	Critique #4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In Ben Bagdikian’s The Media Monopoly, Bagdikian discusses how corporations have a monopoly on the media.
		He focuses on how the number of corporations that dominate the media have been shrinking and condemns the media for its methods of gaining the public’s attention.
		It is true that the media has coarsened popular culture (Bagdikian 3) but popular culture has also coarsened the media.
	www.louisville.edu /~knnguy02/bagdikian.html (269 words)

	Journalist Ben Bagdikian To Speak At St. Lawrence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Bagdikian has won most of the top prizes in American journalism.
		He has been a Washington bureau chief and foreign correspondent for The Providence Journal, an assistant managing editor of The Washington Post and a dean of the graduate school of journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.
		Bagdikian is also the author of a number of books, including In the Midst of Plenty: The Poor in America (1964), The Information Machine (1970) and Double Vision: Reflections on My Heritage, Life and Profession (1995).
	www.stlawu.edu /news/bagdikia.html (195 words)

	Ben Bagdikian New Media Monopoly (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Voters without genuine choices and without the information they need to choose what meets their own needs and wishes has produced something alarming: on Election Day our voters are forced to vote for what is the narrowest political choices among all industrial democracies of the world.
		The New Media Monopoly, by Ben Bagdikian, describes these dominant media giants, how they cooperate with each other in the manner of a cartel, who runs them, and how this all came to pass in such insidious ways.
		It reminds a whole generation that has forgotten, for example, that the public owns the air waves, not the broadcasters.
	www.benbagdikian.com.cob-web.org:8888 (493 words)

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