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Broadcasting in Ghana:An overview of changing times
Partially from a masters thesis by Ama Serwah Adu-Gyimah, a discussion about broadcasting in Ghana. Includes contact inf ormation.
http://www.geocities.com/amaserwah/index.html

Danny Schector
Danny Schechter, media activist also known as "the News Dissector," uses his scalpel on media malfeasance in this weekly column.
http://www.mediachannel.org/views/dissector/

Hold On to Your Phone Bill -- It's Merger Time
Commentary on lack of FCC concern about the effects of consolidation of telephone and broadcasting services on consumer interests and democracy. From Mother Jones.
http://www.motherjones.com/fotc/fotc6.html

How the News Media Covered a Media Merger
Analysis uses media coverage of Time-Warner merger to illustrate how consolidation of corporate ownership limits and distorts news coverage. Christopher Pieper and Kristen Hughes at U. Texas at Austin Graduate School of Journalism. (From The Real News Pages.)
http://www.rain.org/~openmind//medstud1.htm

Criticism.Com
Essays, book reviews, bookstore, articles on communications theory, social science, discourse analysis, philosophy, linguistics, and psychoanalysis.
http://www.criticism.com