It's the Media, StupidOpen Media Series Number 17 Provides an analysis of the current crisis in the media in the US which, the authors argue, has undermined democracy and has fallen into the hands of a small number of transnational conglomerates that use their political and economic power to carpet bomb the citizenry with commercial messages. Also presents ways in which the media system can be improved and made more responsive to the needs of ordinary people and less dominated by those of the financial and advertising industries. |
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Page 24
... democracy that occurs when the media system is set up primarily to maximize profit for a handful of enormous self - interested corporations . An Orwellian disconnect is created . The news required for a functional democracy— the news ...
... democracy that occurs when the media system is set up primarily to maximize profit for a handful of enormous self - interested corporations . An Orwellian disconnect is created . The news required for a functional democracy— the news ...
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... democracy . " In 1999 , the number saying media helps democracy had dropped to 45 percent , while the number identifying media as harm- ful to democracy had risen to 38 percent . 38 These polls are hardly the final word on the subject ...
... democracy . " In 1999 , the number saying media helps democracy had dropped to 45 percent , while the number identifying media as harm- ful to democracy had risen to 38 percent . 38 These polls are hardly the final word on the subject ...
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... democracy . " We , the citizens , own the airwaves , yet we don't con- trol them . The corporations that control them feed us a steady diet of electronic junk food and it is making our democracy sick , " Nader declared . " What would ...
... democracy . " We , the citizens , own the airwaves , yet we don't con- trol them . The corporations that control them feed us a steady diet of electronic junk food and it is making our democracy sick , " Nader declared . " What would ...
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