Ownership in every major medium now includes investors from other media— owners of newspapers, magazines, broadcasting, cable systems, books and movies mixed together. In the past, each medium used to act like a watchdog over the behavior of its competing media . . . But now the watchdogs have been cross-bred into an amiable hybrid, with seldom an embarrassing bark. Ben H. Bagdikian, The Media Monopoly, 1987.

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