Media ownership

Roderick White

WARC Hot Topics are the essential guide to debates in and around marketing. This paper explores the key debates surrounding the issue of media ownership, with onward links to related papers on WARC and the Web.

How Should Media Ownership Be Controlled?

September 2003
'Corporate media power really is getting scarily concentrated. Just as the crazy weather patterns of the last few years are forcing even naysayers to think about the likelihood that global warming is for real, so today's merger ought to give even the most diehard freemarketeer cause to stop and wonder where we're going.' (www.salon.com on the AOLTime Warner merger)

' today more subtle threats to freedom of expression come from within media as a result of media concentration, globalization and a culture of...

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