Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher, Inc., 1981. First Edition [Stated], First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. 384 pages. Illustrations. DJ has some wear, edge tears and ships, minor soiling and is in a plastic sleeve. Foreword by Ben H. Bagdikian. Illustrations. Sources. Chronology. Bibliography. Index. Chronicles 200 years of U.S. publications, from Tom Paine's Common Sense to I. F. Stone's Weekly, plus The Berkeley Barb, L.A. Free Press Mother Jones, and New Age Journal. The author was the former editor of the Berkeley Barb, and had worked in newspaper and radio journalism. Ben-hur Haig Bagdikian (January 30, 1920 – March 11, 2016) was an Armenian-American journalist, news media critic and commentator, and university professor. An Armenian genocide survivor, Bagdikian moved to the United States as an infant and began a journalism career after serving in World War II. He worked as a local reporter, investigative journalist and foreign correspondent for The Providence Journal. During his time there, he won a Peabody Award and a Pulitzer Prize. In 1971, he received parts of the Pentagon Papers from Daniel Ellsberg and successfully persuaded The Washington Post to publish them despite objections and threats from the Richard Nixon administration. Bagdikian later taught at the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and served as its dean from 1985 to 1988. Bagdikian was a noted critic of the news media. His The Media Monopoly, warned about the concentration of corporate ownership of news organizations influenced, among others, Noam Chomsky. He has been hailed for his ethical standards and been described as one of the finest journalists of the 20th century. More