Forty years ago, viewers who wanted to watch the news could only choose from among the major broadcast networks, all of which presented the same news without an

This 2003 book reports the only national, random sample survey of US children and adolescents' use of all of the various media available to them conducted in at

People have worried for many years about the concentration of private power over the media, as evidenced by controversy over Federal Communication Commission ru

Much of what the world knows about the United States of America is constructed and spread through global media. One can hardly find a country where news events

Drawing from extensive archival research, the book uncovers the American media system's historical roots and normative foundations. It charts the rise and fall