I forgot to include this link of him on Democracy Now! a few days ago. It gives a good overview of the book. I think you're right that the description may be rock-solid -- and in itself a service -- more than the proposals, which do harken back to a Golden Age of Media that I don't think is quite as rosy as many media reform types think. There might also be a real small/grassroots=good equation, which as WBAI shows, is not always so...
On 2/2/07, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> Auguste Blanqui wrote:
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> > Has anyone read it? <http://www.freepress.net/news/20256> I seem to
> > recall Doug and others questioning the concentration = bad hypothesis
> > a few months back, and I myself generally find such analysis
> > simplistic. But Klinenberg's first book, Heat Wave, was quite
> > phenomenal, and I have been looking forward to this one for some
> > time...
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> Interesting. One problem: even when the _description_ of current media
> is persuasive, the historical argument is weak because there is _no_
> historical argument: that is, such critiques seldom try to offer any
> concrete and well-grounded account of (implied) "better days" before
> concentration. At a minimum, I would like to see such a study take
> seriously Upton Sinclair's _Brass Check_.
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> Carrol
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