America's Battle for Media Democracy: The Triumph of Corporate Libertarianism and the Future of Media Reform

by Victor Pickard

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107694752
• ISBN13: 9781107694750
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"