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Article: Goliath swallows leviathan: conglomerates and the media. (commentary on the impact of media and technology)
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- Commonweal
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- November 7, 1997
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Millennial fever is upon us, and it's pandemic. Never mind that Clio, the Muse of history, doesn't really pay much mind to our highly arbitrary calendrical reckonings. We want her to, and I'm not sure whether completely resisting that visionary tug is the sign of a resolute mind or a dull one. That tug helps explain the sad ecstasy of the Hale-Boppers of the Heaven's Gate cult; and, at another (not higher) level, the recent elaborate academic debate about whether or not we are living through "The End of History."
It's also the context in which to read the fascinating, feisty collection of essays, Conglomerates and the Media, by Erik Barnouw and others (The New Press, ...