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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
C Edwin Baker |
| ISBN: | 0521804353 9780521804356 0521009774 9780521009775 |
| OCLC Number: | 46402100 |
| Description: | xiv, 377 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Serving Audiences -- Not Toasters: The Special Nature of Media Products -- Public Goods and Monopolistic Competition -- The Problem of Externalities -- The Market as a Measure of Preferences -- Where To? Policy Responses -- Serving Citizens -- Different Democracies and Their Media -- Journalistic Ideals -- Fears and Responsive Policies -- Constitutional Implications -- An Illustration: International Trade -- Trade and Economics -- Trade, Culture, and Democracy -- Postscript: The Internet and Digital Technologies. |
| Series Title: | Communication, society, and politics. |
| Responsibility: | C. Edwin Baker. |
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Abstract:
"The mass media and free press should serve people both as consumers and as citizens. Critics claim that government interventions in media markets prevent audiences from getting the media products they want. Political theorists assert that a free press is essential for democracy. The critics' claim is incorrect and the theorists' assertion is inadequate as a policy or constitutional guide. Even if markets properly provide for people's desires or preferences for most products, Part I of this book shows that unique aspects of media products systematically cause markets to fail in respect to them. Part II shows that four prominent, but different, theories of democracy lead to different conceptions of good journalistic practice, good media policy, and proper constitutional principles. While implicitly favoring a theory of "complex democracy," Part II makes it clear that the choice among democratic theories is crucial for understanding what should be meant by a free press. Part III explores one currently controversial issue - international free trade in media products. Contrary to the American negotiating position relating to media products, both economic and democratic theory justify deviations from free trade."--Jacket.
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