Source Diversity after the Telecommunications Act of 1996: Media Oligarchs Begin to Colonize Cyberspace

Television & New Media

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 95-112

  Blevins, Jeffrey Layne ^a  

^a CENTRAL MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84997858866     PISSN: 15274764     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/152747640200300106     Document Type: Article

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