Media Concentration and Democracy : Why Ownership Matters
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Communication, Society and Politics
ISBN-10
0521868327
ISBN-13
9780521868327
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 11th, 2006
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
478 grams
Dimensions
23.50 x 15.80 x 2.20 cms
Product Classification:
Political structures: democracyMedia, information & communication industries
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This book provides a normative critique of mass media ownership concentration. It emphasizes a democratic need to distribute communicative power more widely and to prevent abuse of media power. It also shows why ownership dispersal can be expected to improve the quality of media content.
Firmly rooting its argument in democratic and economic theory, the book argues that a more democratic distribution of communicative power within the public sphere and a structure that provides safeguards against abuse of media power provide two of three primary arguments for ownership dispersal. It also shows that dispersal is likely to result in more owners who will reasonably pursue socially valuable journalistic or creative objectives rather than a socially dysfunctional focus on the ''bottom line''. The middle chapters answer those agents, including the Federal Communication Commission, who favor ''deregulation'' and who argue that existing or foreseeable ownership concentration is not a problem. The final chapter evaluates the constitutionality and desirability of various policy responses to concentration, including strict limits on media mergers.
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