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Article: Media Mergers
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- Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly
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- January 1, 1998
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CopyrightCopyright Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Winter 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Media Mergers. Nancy J. Woodhull and Robert W. Snyder, eds. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1998. 198 pp. $21.95 pbk.
Are media mergers good or bad? In the tradition of mainstream journalism, the editors of Media Mergers do not take sides.
"For now, anyone who wants to understand the mergers will be best served by a healthy dose of skepticism, a search for illuminating facts and a willingness to consider all sides of the discussion," write editors Nancy J. Woodhull, who died in 1997 shortly after these essays were first published in Media Studies Journal (Spring/Summer 1996), and Robert W. Snyder, a historian and managing editor of Media Studies Journal. "The best and ...