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INTRODUCTION; PART A: AMERICAN MEDIA IN DECLINE; 1. ANGLO-AMERICAN, GLOBAL AND EURO-AMERICAN MEDIA VERSUS MEDIA NATIONALISM; 2. TELEVISION SOAP OPERAS, TELENOVELAS, BRAZIL; 3. FROM B2B TO BEDROOM AND FROM USA TO WORLD; 4. FREAKISH MEDIA FINANCES BENEFIT NUMBER ONE; 5. MEDIA MOGULS ARE NATIONAL; 6. ANGLO-AMERICAN WORLD NEWS, PUBLIC RELATIONS AND UNREPORTED MASS KILLINGS; 7. US WORLD MEDIA PEAK AROUND 1950; 8. SINCE 1950: THE US LOOKING SUPERLATIVE, WHILE LOSING WORLD MEDIA MARKET SHARE; 9. DECLINE: US MEDIA, MORAL AUTHORITY, "SOLE SUPERPOWER"; PART B: BIG POPULATION COUNTRIES: INDIA AND CHINA; 10. THE RISE OF BIG POPULATION COUNTRIES AND THEIR MEDIA; 11. INDIA'S MULTI-RING MEDIA CIRCUS; 12. CHINA: CAPITALIST-COMMUNIST MEDIA STIR-FRY; PART C: WORLD MEDIA PECKING ORDER; 13. WORLD MEDIA PECKING ORDER; 14. EUROPE AND EURO-AMERICAN MEDIA; 15. AFRICA: BOTTOM OF THE MEDIA PECKING ORDER; PART D: MEDIA AND CULTURAL NATIONALISM IN EMPIRE, WORLD REGIONAL, AND GLOBAL, SETTINGS; 16. NATIONAL MEDIA SYSTEM AS LEAD PLAYER; 17. A SEPARATE ARAB MEDIA BLOC; 18. SPANISH LANGUAGE MEDIA IN LATIN AMERICA; 19. 21 NEW NATION STATES REPLACE COMMUNIST MEDIA EMPIRE; 20. AMERICAN MEDIA DECLINE TO CONTINUE?