Media Ownership and Democracy in the Digital Information Age

This book combines a detailed review of First Amendment jurisprudence with rigorous economic analysis to demonstrate the continuing need for structural limits on media ownership to promote democratic discourse.

Book Description

Topics included: A bold aspiration for the first amendment • Media economics and democratic discourse • Print journalism • The electronic mass media • Defining mass media information markets • Analysis of media markets • Structural principles for media ownership limits • Hocus pocus with the fcc’s diversity index: making market power disappear.

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