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Media Concentration and Democracy: Why Ownership Matters

Media Concentration and Democracy: Why Ownership Matters

Baker, C. Edwin

Paperback

Series: Communication, Society and Politics

General SociologyUnited States Politics

ISBN10: 0521687888
ISBN13: 9780521687881
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Dec 11 2006
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.21 Depth: 8.89
Language: English
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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