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Media Monopolists

Jesse Walker | 4.11.2003 10:53 AM

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Frequent Reason contributor Matt Welch stands up for media competition -- and wonders why so many liberals who say they support a competitive press end up endorsing the opposite.

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Jesse Walker is books editor at Reason and the author of Rebels on the Air and The United States of Paranoia.

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