Media concentration and democracy : why ownership matters /

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"Objections to concentrated ownership of the mass media are widespread. Often, however, critics merely point to the fact of huge and growing media conglomerates without explaining precisely why this is bad. This book fills the gap in the critique of concentration. Firmly rooting its argument in...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Baker, C. Edwin
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Series:Communication, society, and politics.
Subjects:
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer > Bitterfeld
Mass media > Ownership > United States.
Freedom of the press > United States.
Médias > Propriété > États-Unis.
Liberté de la presse > États-Unis.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Media Studies.
Freedom of the press
Mass media > Ownership
Demokratie
Massenmedien
Unternehmenskonzentration
Eigentümer
Pressefreiheit
Mediekoncentration.
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Democracy at the crossroads: why ownership matters
  • Not a real problem: many owners, many sources
  • Not a real problem: the market or the internet will provide
  • The First Amendment guarantee of a free press: an objection to regulation?
  • Solutions and responses
  • Postscript: policy opportunism.

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