CMDA 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cable Television, Federal Communications Commission, Copyright Infringement
31 Jan 2017
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Creates opportunities for cross-promotion and synergy (different parts working together and benefitting from being under a larger umbrella) Conglomerate-anytime a big company buys smaller companies, often across different mediums. Creates conflicts of interest when reporting about themselves? possibly stop people from showing up to the parks. Conglomerates put economic gains in front of informative news. Abc story about child abuse in disney theme parks. Disney ceo asked them not to run story because it would hurt disney"s reputation; If getting media for free, than you are the product. Pay for the cover price but there are also a bunch of ads. The role of the us government in us media: Ensures that only creators can profit from their intellectual property, protects against infringement and piracy. Has to do with money and that they are the only ones who are profiting it. Whoever has the copyright has control on how to sell it.
