Titlebook: Mass Media, Politics and Democracy; John Street Textbook 2001Latest edition The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2001 exception

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Conglomerate Control: Media Moguls and Media Power Men like Rupert Murdoch, Ted Turner, Conrad Black and Silvio Berlusconi, and companies like News Corporation and Bertelsmann, often appear to be the main players in the emerging media order. Black’s company, Hollinger International, at one stage owned 400 publications worldwide, with a total circul

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Watchdogs or Lapdogs? The Politics of Journalismtizens rely; it is they who act out the rituals of accountability when cross-examining politicians. But is this trust warranted? Do journalists practise their profession as autonomous agents? Are they independent servants of political truth and the public interest? Or are they the hired guns of part

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Packaging Politics After all, why else are people interested in media bias or corporate ownership, if not because of the worry that systematic distortion or monopoly control thwarts or denies the capacity of citizens to judge and respond to the exercise of power? The next four chapters confront directly the question

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Power and Mass Mediare, to be numbered with other political institutions — parliaments, executives, administrations and parties. As Paolo Mancini and David Swanson (1996: 11) write: ‘No longer merely a means by which other subsystems, such as political parties, can spread their own messages, mass media emerge in modern

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A Free Press: Democracy and Mass Mediae should be. So it is that the US Constitution’s First Amendment insists that ‘Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press’ while, by contrast, Saudi Arabia’s Fundamental Law (Article 39) requires that ‘The media and publishing houses, as well as other forms of expr

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Conclusionheir values. That this happens is, for many commentators, a cause of some regret. It seems to suggest that politicians are no longer valued as .; they have become ‘one of us’. Writing in the . (12 September 1998), Gerard Baker remarks: ‘In the television era, presidents have ceased to be inaccessibl

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