CMNS 130 Lecture 3: Week 3 book notes (Freedman)

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMNS 130
• Professor: Kathleen Cross

Document Summary

Pluralism, neo-liberalism and media policy by d. freedman (2008) Based on the recognition of group diversity and attempts to maximize the productivity off group bargaining to achieve social cohesion. Often deployed by participants to describe and justify existing media policy arrangements (p. 16) Argued that us politics was a competitive arena in which different interests vied for power and influence, but in which there was no single dominant voice (p. 16) Argued that any danger of undue private interest group influences would be countered by the openness of multiple access points into the policymaking process which would actually addd to the stability of the system (p. 17) Influence stemmed not just from economic power, but from prestige, profile and vision of the participants (p. 17) Miliband, there are elites, but there is no elite : false claim that the major organized interests" compete on more or less equal terms.