An eastern corridor has monopolized American news and entertainment since 1800

Evidence

The point is that since 1800 we have lived with essentially a dominant eastern corridor of American communication that has created an effective monopoly of knowledge in news and entertain- ment. Concretely, today this means that a few national figures and themes are pretty much exclusively focused on politics and entertainment, that local issues are of interest only when they can be alchemized into national issues of con- cern in a few urban centers, and that the drama of news and entertainment must be made increasingly slick and abstract to appeal to national and, increas- ingly, international audiences. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 606

The point is that since 1800 we have lived with essentially a dominant eastern corridor of American communication that has created an effective monopoly of knowledge in news and entertain- ment. — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 606

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to space-bias and metropole-hinterland analysis in Innis, and to modern debates about media concentration. — connects to: American media empire expanded power while preserving nominal sovereignty — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 598
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 606

Broader Connections

• American media empire expanded power while preserving nominal sovereignty #expands (0.75) — James W. Carey, Communication as Culture- Essays on…, 598