...to broader technological, economic, and social changes. Unlike the United States, they argue that Canada has been slow to publish credible surveys of the development of newspapers, magazines, and journalism. Pacific Press: The Unauthorized Story of Vancouver's Newspaper Monopoly succeeds in addressing their concerns and in doing so makes a definitive addition to the history of the media in Canada. This book is particularly helpful for the painstaking detail that it uses to examine the creation of Pacific Press in 1957 and its entrenchment as a monopoly that had detrimental effects on two major media...

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