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Sound business newspapers radio and the politics of new media is a well researched contribution to american media and business history but more than that it helps us better understand the intellectual and political contexts that have both enabled and constrained american choices about cross media ownership. Sound business newspapers radio and the politics of new media is a well researched contribution to american media and business history but more than that it helps us better understand the intellectual and political contexts that have both enabled and constrained american choices about cross media ownership. The book advances two arguments first newspapers used radio broadcasting to create a new kind of media corporation that utilized multiple media to circulate information and generate profits and second these multimedia corporations were central to the legal and political processes structuring the american public sphere in the . Sound business newspapers radio and the politics of new media is a well researched contribution to american media and business history but more than that it helps us better understand the intellectual and political contexts that have both enabled and constrained american choices about cross media ownership. American newspapers have faced competition from new media for over ninety years today digital media challenge the printed word in the 1920s broadcast radio was the threatening upstart at the time newspaper publishers of all sizes turned threat into opportunity by establishing their own