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Media Concentration and Democracy: Why Ownership Matters by C. Edwin Baker

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Media Concentration and Democracy: Why Ownership Matters C. Edwin Baker
Language: English
Page: 273
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0521868327, 9780521868327
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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.