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The media were American.

Publication: Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
Publication Date: 01-JUN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: The media were American.(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Tunstall, J. (2008). The media were American: U.S. mass media in decline. New York: Oxford University Press. 455 pages.

Thirty years after his book declared The Media Are American, Tunstall has found that the American era of media dominance has passed. This is pretty much explained by the development of national and regional media over the past quarter century. As Tunstall states: most people prefer to be informed and entertained by people "who look the same, talk the same, joke the same, behave the same" as they do (p. xiv). Tunstall is not quite sure about the future, however. His final...

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