Political Science 2143A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Euromaidan, Political Satire, George Galloway
11 Feb 2021
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What happens when the state owns and controls media. Political economy: who owns the media and why it matters. How media looks changes depending on who owns it, affecting quality of media and freedom of speech. Private (this lecture focuses mostly on state and publicly owned media) Every state exercises some control over what journalists write or broadcast. - john street. Ownership of a legal media outlet must be registered through a government facility. The state has the power to decide the legality of ownership. Regulation is not negative or positive, but neutral, depending on how it is exercised in different states. Licensing powers - there are only a certain number of frequencies on which to broadcast. Subsidies - the state has the power to subsidize public broadcasters. Tax incentives - for privately owned media to flourish the state can incentivize. Quotas - to protect our own media producers, canada uses quotas to regulate percentages of canadian content.
