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| Preface | |
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| Political Problem, Political Solutions | |
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| Media, Markets, and Policies | |
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| U.S. Media System Not "Naturally" Profit Driven | |
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| Subsidizing the Press | |
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| The Rise of Broadcasting | |
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| The Neoliberal Period | |
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| Understanding U.S. Journalism I: Corporate Control and Professionalism | |
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| Journalism's Great Crisis | |
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| Rise of Professional Journalism | |
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| Limitations of Professional Journalism | |
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| The Commercialization of Journalism | |
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| Covering the Corporate Scandal | |
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| Understanding U.S. Journalism II: Right-Wing Criticism and Political Coverage | |
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| Conservative Critique of the "Liberal Media" | |
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| Right-Wing Political Campaign against the Media | |
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| Partisan Coverage in Peace and War | |
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| Journalism's Litmus Test: Election Coverage | |
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| Missing the Story--From DC to Florida | |
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| The Age of Hyper-Commercialism | |
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| Rise of Advertising | |
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| Hyper-Commercialism and Media | |
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| The Crumbling Wall | |
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| Hyper-Commercialism's New Frontiers | |
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| Advertising and Policy | |
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| The Market Uber Alles | |
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| Is the Media System a Competitive Market? | |
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| Conglomeration and Synergy | |
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| Is the Market Appropriate to Regulate Media? | |
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| Creativity versus Commerce in the Conglomerate Era | |
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| So Do Commercial Media Give People What They Want? | |
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| The Case for the Status Quo | |
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| Media Policies and Media Reform | |
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| Technology and the Internet | |
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| Policy Making in the Internet Era | |
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| Media Ownership Policies | |
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| Media and Antitrust Law | |
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| Public Broadcasting, Yesterday and Today | |
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| Invigorating Public Media | |
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| The Uprising of 2003 | |
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| Media Reform Movement Comes to Life | |
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| Powell and Copps Take the Stage | |
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| Beltway Opposition Stiffens | |
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| Powell's Three Arguments | |
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| Opposition Grows Beyond the Beltway | |
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| Left and Right Unite | |
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| From FCC to Congress | |
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| Trench Warfare | |
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| Epilogue: The Hardest Battle Has Been Won | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |