Media concentration and democracy : why ownership matters / C. Edwin Baker.
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TextPublication details: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 256 p. ; 24 cmISBN: - 9780521687881
- 0521687888
- 9780521868327
- 0521868327
- 302.230973 BAM
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Democracy at the crossroads: why ownership matters;
2. Not a real problem: many owners, many sources;
3. Not a real problem: the market or the net will provide;
4. First amendment guarantee of free press - an objection to regulation?;
5. Solutions and responses.
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.
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