First published to great acclaim in 2000, is Robert W. McChesneys magnum opus. Called a rich, penetrating study by Noam Chomsky, the book is a meticulously researched exposition of how U.S. media and communication empires are threatening effective democratic governance. What happens when a few conglomerates dominate all major aspects of mass media, from newspapers and magazines to radio and broadcast television? Since the publication of this prescient work, which won Harvards Goldsmith Book Prize and the Kappa Tau Alpha Research Award, the concentration of media power and the resultant hypercommercialization of culture has only intensified.