Media Concentration and Democracy: Why Ownership Matters

by C. Edwin Baker

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521687888
• ISBN13: 9780521687881
• Release Date: December 2006
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 8.9"