SOC384H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Ryan Seacrest, Corporate Media, Kim Kardashian
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Public media are funded by the state (although that funding can vary from complete to. The cbc is our public broadcaster (television, radio, internet); bbc in britain, pbs/npr. Private media are like any other corporation, owned and run primarily in order to make. Newspaper readers shift by cohort such as old people read hard copy print. Public media are funded by government/state cbc radio gets 100% of govt support and the cbc tv gets only a part of support form govt, the rest they get from advertisements. You don"t see advertisements on cbc"s internet site, this tells us something it is that tv is more expensive form of media so the govt decided it will not fund all of cbc television. Cbc is not unique it is a model developed from the british broadcasting. Private media are like any other business they are owned and run in order to make a profit.
