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Is Democracy in Danger
This entry was posted in Life, Thoughts and tagged concentration of media ownership, democracy, marketplace of idead, media, newspapers, radio, tv. Bookmark the permalink.
Media concentration is certainly a problem, at least if you only look at newspapers, radio, and television, but can we do that in an age when internet access is fairly widespread and more and more news is delivered that way? On the internet another problem seems to obtain. Have a look at On the Media’s treatment of homophily; http://www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/2008/05/02/04
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Very interesting read. Glad to have found your blog. Will put it on my list or regulars.
-Rosenblum
Rob, I don’t know if you submitted this article to the I-J (if you did, I missed it), but if not, I hope you will.