Word: bookings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hostile takeover." But while the media have closely covered the excesses of Wall Street, they have not been so careful to report the recent slew of takeovers in their own industry. Ben Bagdikian, the dean of Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, has called these developments, in a book of the same name, "The Media Monopoly...
...fifty corporations owned a majority of the nation's book publishing firms, newspapers and broadcasting companies. Under Reagan, that number was halved. Today, only 26 corporations, including such companies as Capital Cities/ABC, Gannet Co., McGraw-Hill, Time, Inc. and Warner Communications own half or more of all the media outlets in the United States. In the 1940s, four out of five U.S. newspapers were privately owned. Today, almost four out of five newspapers are under corporate ownership. Twenty corporations owned most of America's magazines in 1982. By 1987, because of increased mergers and acquisitions, the 20 corporations were reduced...
...election day, voters in several precinctsplaced stickers bearing Graham's name overThompson's name in the ballot book, a part of thevoting machine itself. Thomure has charged that,as a result, voters might have voted for Thompsonunder the impression that they were voting forGraham...
Pierpoint stood still for a couple more seconds, Kiker pecked a time or two. Three seconds, four. Then reality rushed with terrifying clarity down that short street beneath the Texas School Book Depository. We were never the same, nor was the world...
Excerpts from a forthcoming book suggest that Lee Harvey Oswald, angry at the downgrading of his Marine discharge, was out to get the Governor of Texas, not J. F. K. -- Twenty- five years after the assassination, the trendy conspiracy theory is that the Mafia used Oswald to stop the Kennedy brothers' war on crime. -- Hugh Sidey recalls the shattering day that started with cheers and ended in mourning...