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"Rich Media, Poor Democracy" by Robert McChesney
A communications authority eyeballs the current media merger mania and offers some hard and fast suggestions for doing better.

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By Dustin Beilke

November 21, 1999 |
salon.com | November 21, 1999

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Dustin Beilke has written for the Nation, the Progressive and Newsday, among other publications. He lives in Madison, Wis.

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