Converging Media, Diverging Politics: A Political Economy of News Media in the United States and Canada

Converging Media, Diverging Politics: A Political Economy of News Media in the United States and Canada

by Mark Cooper, Nick Dyer-Witheford, Robert Jensen, Frédéric Dubois, Robert Horwitz, Mike Gasher, David Skinner, Jeanette McVicker, James R. Compton, Michael Gasher, Debra Clarke, Danielle Fairbairn, Dorothy Kidd, Francisco McGee, Chris Paterson, Ben Scott, Michel Sénécal, Leslie Regan Shade

352 pages· 2005· ISBN 9780739113066
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What purpose does the news media serve in contemporary North American society? In this collection of essays, experts from both the United States and Canada investigate this question, exploring the effects of media concentration in democratic systems. Specifically, the scholars collected here consider, from a range of vantage points, how corporate and technological convergence in the news industry in the United States and Canada impacts journalism's expressed role as a medium of democratic communication.

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