When the first edition was published in 1983, critics called the warnings about the chilling effects of corporae ownership and mass advertising on the nation's news "alarmist". Since that time, the number of corporations controlling most of America's daily newspapers, magazines, radio, television, books, and movies has dropped from fifty, to ten, to six. This edition features a dramatiac new preface, detailing the media landscape as we enter the 21st century, and includes an entirely new examination of the implications of new technologies.