POL 607 Lecture Notes - Internet2, Rupert Murdoch, Mass Media
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People think about media a lot to think what the medias role should be in society. Liberal perspective, social responsibility perspective, authoritarian perspective and the marxist perspective: liberal . Should be in a competitive environment, should get most profit. Competition will get best product for best price (market economy) It"s a matter of identity for canada and europe with regards to films, but for america its profits. Big corporations own most media outlets: social. Government/state has to play some role in running the media. Cbc (based on bbc model) really in best interest of public instead of commercial broadcasting (more so bbc) Subsidies government gives money to producers (quebec highest), Because there is no corporate dominance the government is in a sense compelled to play a role: authoritarian. Mildly democratic (where there"s some undemocratic tendencies) media is still privately owned but there is lots of pressure to not criticize the government purpose to maintain power.