TY - BOOK AU - Bettig,Ronald V. AU - Hall,Jeanne Lynn ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Big media, big money: cultural texts and political economics AV - P96.E25 B48 2012 U1 - 384.0973 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Lanham, Md. PB - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. KW - Mass media KW - Economic aspects KW - Mass media and culture KW - Corporate power KW - United States KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: beat the press -- Media merger mania: concentration in the media industry -- The Hollywood film industry: do we really need it? -- The music industry: the payer calls the tune -- The news and advertising industries: all the news that fits -- Ad creep: the commercialization of culture -- The commercialization of education: students for sale -- Media and democracy: taking it to the streets; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=919512 ER -