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This book is a startling expose of the increasing threat to free speech and democratic government. A broadcast insider with twenty years of working experience with the major networks, Mazzocco describes the ways that an ever-expanding U.S.-based multinational media cartel veils the machinations of the corporate state by dominating worldwide markets for TV, radio, newspapers, books, movies, cable, recordings, and videos.

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This work, from a press committed to the politics of radical social change, offers an expose of the current media monopoly in US network television. It is a carefully researched history of the giant media oligopoly that has taken over the public airwaves, newspapers, and magazines in the name of free enterprise and service to our national interests. Mazzocco, who worked for ABC TV for 12 years, describes the workings of this national TV network from an insider position and then details how a corporate elite with social and political connections has woven a complex web involving the CIA, FBI, FCC, Hollywood studios, and elected officials into a hidden empire dedicated to profit and control. He uses the Capital Cities takeover of ABC in 1985 as a case study to reveal how calculated and ruthless are the media power brokers in their efforts to establish international media cartels dedicated to delivering mass audiences to corporate advertisers at great personal profit. He makes it clear that ordinary citizens have no input into decisions that determine whose interests these media giants serve and that their representatives or regulatory agencies are unable to resist the power and wealth of this elite. His concern is that monopolistic control over media information and cultural production by a small cadre subverts democracy. With only a few in control, the popular media become an awesome apparatus for thought control, and representative democracy becomes an illusion. Written in a turgid reportorial style, this work is not likely to capture the public imagination. Nor are the author's solutions. Most Americans seem quite happy with their supposedly free entertainment machine. General readers; researchers. R. Cathcart Queens College, CUNY