Ben H. Bagdikian is the author of In the Midst of Plenty: The Poor in America (Beacon Press, 1963), The Media Monopoly (6th Ed., 2000), other books. He is the former Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.
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There is a famous Washington tableaux in the National Capitol. No, not George Washington crossing the Delaware. It is a repeated public…
There is a famous Washington tableaux in the National Capitol. No, not George Washington crossing the Delaware. It is a repeated public…
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