Who controls information / Ben Bagdikian ; production by Richard Mahler.

A talk delivered at a seminar on information and power. The professor-journalist-author describes how media ownership is concentrated in a few major corporations and how this affects the content of news and entertainment programming. Ben Bagdikian is one of the nation’s foremost media critics, a professor of journalism at the University of California-Berkeley, and the author of such books as the Information Machines and Monopoly Media. He was formerly the managing editor of the Washington Post and a researcher with the Rand Corporation. This talk is from a seminar at UCLA on Information and Power held on November 6, 1982. Bagdikian places special emphasis on the way in which concentration of the media ownership into a few major corporations is affecting the content of our news and entertainment programming.