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America's Battle for Media Democracy

America's Battle for Media Democracy

Pickard, Victor

Hardcover

Series: Communication, Society and Politics

20th Century United States HistoryGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1107038332
ISBN13: 9781107038332
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Oct 27 2014
Pages: 262
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.78 Width: 6.03 Depth: 9.32
Language: English
How did the American media system become what it is today? Why do American media have so few public interest regulations compared with other democratic nations? How did the system become dominated by a few corporations, and why are structural problems like market failures routinely avoided in media policy discourse? By tracing the answers to many of these questions back to media policy battles in the 1940s, this book explains how this happened and why it matters today. Drawing from extensive archival research, the book uncovers the American media system's historical roots and normative foundations. It charts the rise and fall of a forgotten media reform movement to recover alternatives and paths not taken. As much about the present and future as it is about the past, the book proposes policies for remaking media based on democratic values for the digital age.

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