Sound business: newspapers, radio, and the politics of new media

Introduction: underwriting the ether: newspapers and the origins of American broadcasting

1. Power, politics, and the promise of new media: newspaper ownership of radio in the 1920s

2. New empires: media concentration in the 1930s

3. Reshaping the public sphere: the New Deal and media concentration

4. Reform liberalism and the media: the Federal Communications Commission's newspaper-radio investigation

5. Media corporations and the critical public: the struggle over ownership diversity in postwar broadcasting

Conclusion: the persistence of print: newspapers and broadcasting in the age of television.