AMERICA'S BATTLE FOR MEDIA DEMOCRACY by Victor Pickard ( 9781107038332 )

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AMERICA'S BATTLE FOR MEDIA DEMOCRACY
THE TRIUMPH OF CORPORATE LIBERTARIANISM AND THE FUTURE OF MEDIA REFORM

By:

Victor Pickard

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

27 October, 2014

Series:

Communication, Society and Politics

Pages:

262

Description:

Drawing from extensive archival research, this book uncovers the American media system's historical roots and normative foundations.

Synopsis:

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 why it matters today. Drawing from extensive archival research, the book uncovers the American media system's historical roots and normative foundations. It charts the rise and fall of a forgotten media reform movement to recover alternatives and paths not taken. As much about the present and future as it is about the past, the book proposes policies for remaking media based on democratic values for the digital age.

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Cambridge University Press

Prizes:

Winner of Frank Luther Mott Kappa Tau Alpha Journalism and Mass

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