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Riffin’ on Music & Language
Amiri Baraka
The origins of key elements of African American culture, such as the blues and jazz, can be traced to traditional West African griot and djali musicians and performers. They were not just entertainers and storytellers but custodians of memory. They are the link in the trans-Atlantic chain leading to Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington, […]
Jazz & African American Culture
Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka talks about how bebop put Africa back in jazz, and the significance of culture in understanding U.S. history.
Straight No Chaser
Amiri Baraka
Interview by David Barsamian.
Remembering the Armenian Genocide
Peter Balakian
For Armenians around the world, “April,” to quote Eliot, is indeed “the cruelest month.” On April 24, 1915, the Turkish government launched a genocidal campaign of deportation and extermination, effectively ending the millennia-old Armenian presence in eastern Turkey. Amazingly, to this day Turkey denies the genocide. And the U.S. goes along with this charade. A […]
Nike in Indonesia: Just Do It!
Jeff Ballinger
Interview by David Barsamian
Media Concentration: Peril to Democracy
Ben Bagdikian
Information is the currency of democracy, said Thomas Jefferson. He and the founding fathers reasoned that an informed citizenry is crucial to the functioning of democracy. A pluralism of views and a multiplicity of perspectives contribute to a diverse and vital civil society. What happens when information is monopolized by a handful of giant corporations? […]
The Media: And Then There Were Six
Ben Bagdikian
2 CDs The first edition of Bagdikian’s classic The Media Monopoly identified 50 corporations that controlled the media. In subsequent editions, the number went from 29 to 23 to 14 to 10. In the newly-released sixth edition, there are now 6 corporations that dominate TV, radio, newspapers, magazines, movies and the Internet. Their power, wealth and […]
Navigating the Media
Ben Bagdikian
In the wake of reports of plagiarism and story fabrications, public confidence in the media is at an all-time low. Mergers continue. Monopoly control is accelerating. More and more cities have only one paper. Newsroom budgets and staffs shrink. “Infotainment” replaces investigative journalism. Are the communication needs of a democratic society being best served under […]
Journalism & the Media Monopoly
Ben Bagdikian
When the first edition of The Media Monopoly came out in 1983, critics called Ben Bagdikian’s warnings about the growth of corporate control of media “alarmist.” Since then, corporate ownership of media has dramatically increased. The fifth edition of Bagdikian’s classic book was published in 1997. Interview by David Barsamian
Inside the Media Monopoly
Ben Bagdikian
The concentration of the media into fewer and fewer Multinational corporations is one of the major developments of this era. What hundreds of millions of people around the world see, hear and read each day is determined by a handful of media giants. The trend is toward ever increasing political and cultural homogenization: McNews.
The Media Monopoly
Ben Bagdikian
Ben Bagdikian describes the growing concentration of media ownership in the U.S. and how it is increasingly determining the news we read, hear and see. He discerns a “steady pattern of the media looking the other way, of avoiding obvious causes and consequences, so as not to weaken or threaten the status quo.” He contends […]
Media
Ben Bagdikian, Norman Solomon
Two respected media scholars hold forth.

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