Media Concentration and Democracy: Why Ownership Matters

This book provides a normative critique of mass media ownership concentration. It emphasizes a democratic need to distribute communicative power more widely and to prevent abuse of media power. It also shows why ownership dispersal can be expected to improve the quality of media content.

• | Author: C. Edwin Baker
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Dec 11, 2006
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9780521687881
• | ISBN-10: 0521687888