COMN 2200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 7: Revolutionary Front For An Independent East Timor
6 Dec 2016
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Debate of the monopolizing of press, they tried to make news papers come under one voice united. Many journalist hated that idea of one size fits all they had no choice. Freedom of the press only exist for those who own a press. (394) This is seen when prime minister chretien was expose in 2002, and there was an editorial of the canwest newspaper that was released condemning chretien. The asters family who had owned the paper, found it to be highly disrespectful as they had a long standing relationship with chretien and the liberal party. Mcdonough: opposition party of house of commons; hated the control government had on the media press; called what had happened (firing) the people of the press a backwards move ; Freedom of the press is fundemental to a democracy. Global media system : worked by a few countries, each dominates one area; Bollywood works with another giant such as fox.
