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| | The Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom --- Canada |
 | | Media corporations, particular those involved in other sectors of the economy, should be required to provide full details about their ownership holdings and a statement of the relationship to be maintained between the editorial department, including the editor and publisher in the case of newspapers, and the corporation. | | | The ownership and control of most newspapers is today highly concentrated under interests whose business concerns extend far beyond the particular newspaper. | | | Set against this backdrop, it is clear that legislation to curb the concentration of media ownership in Canada is long overdue. |
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http://www.presscampaign.org/proposals.htm
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| | Concentration of media ownership - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Apart from the public Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, commercial media in Canada are primarily owned by a small number of companies, including Bell Globemedia, Canwest Global, CHUM, Rogers, Standard, Shaw, Astral, Newcap and Quebecor. | | | Companies which own both television and newspaper assets have strict controls on the extent to which they can merge the operations. | | | These acquisitions have been controversial; stations in smaller markets have frequently had their local news programming cut back or even eliminated. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownership
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| | Global media ownership - openDemocracy |
| | Media conglomerates are not as powerful as they seem, for even corporations must respect the discipline of the market. | | | The global media are integrating and their ownership is concentrating in fewer hands. | | | The information that people receive through the media, and the ideas and arguments they can access, help to shape their decisions as citizens as well as consumers. |
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http://www.opendemocracy.net/debates/debate.jsp?debateId=24&id=8
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| | MoveOn.org: MoveOn Bulletin |
| | Media concentration, also known as media convergence or media consolidation, basically comes down to the fact that fewer and fewer companies own the media. | | | This brief introduction to corporate ownership of the media is followed by a number of links to resources on the topic, including Norman Solomon's columns. | | | Some issues that are highlighted include the decline of foreign news bureaus, the focus of news programs on entertainment issues such as movie profits, and the outright subservience of the media to the interests of corporations and the US government. |
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http://www.moveon.org/moveonbulletin/bulletin7.html
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| | Media Monopoly: A Data Analysis of Current Media Conglomerates |
| | Both public and private media organizations do perceive profits as the important goal, and there are high degrees to which goals of profits are implemented. | | | According to Waterman, chain ownership can benefit from "transaction cost savings" and "economy of scale" which are the results of "centralized management" (p.172). | | | The conglomeration of media industries enables all generated profit to be directed towards centralizing conglomerates, generating larger capital. |
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http://www.niu.edu/acad/powers/MediaConglom02.htm
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| | Media Ownership Regulation in Australia |
| | The justification for the rules is that the effective functioning of a democracy requires a diverse ownership of the daily mass media to ensure that public life be reported in a fair and open manner. | | | These requirements are necessary to ensure the effective administration of the ownership and control provisions of the Act. | | | Since the election, the Government has indicated that the relaxation of cross-media and foreign ownership rules must be implemented together, or not at all. |
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http://www.aph.gov.au/library/intguide/sp/media_regulations.htm
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| | Media Conglomerates, Mergers, Concentration of Ownership - Global Issues |
| | While in many countries, national ownership of the airwaves can lead to propaganda avenues, many democratic countries are able to, through their governments, apply some set of standards and regulations on how radio is used to ensure people have access to it while also allowing private corporations a lot of access to it. | | | But when big media is owned by big business, there is less criticism of big business or related political issues in big government. | | | The answer is not elimination of private enterprise in the media, but the opposite. |
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http://www.globalissues.org/HumanRights/Media/Corporations/Owners.asp
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| | Merge and Churn concentration of media ownership in US |
| | The concentration of economic resources in a few individual and corporate hands is thus matched by a similar domination of information and ideas. | | | This is because the information industries, which prefer to report breathlessly about the exciting world of business, have been monopolized at a remarkable pace in the past two decades and are now immensely profitable corporations themselves. | | | In 1997 the publishing industry was faltering: the book retailers (now dominated by corporate chains of super-bookstores) were returning unsold books in record numbers and the overall sales of hardcover books were down by 8 percent. |
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http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Economics/MergeChurn.html
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| | The Dominion: Journalists Question Media Ownership in Canada |
| | According to Raudsepp, 84% of Canadian media is owned by the five largest media companies, resulting in "increasingly homogenous perspectives." CanWest Global, the largest Canadian media company, controls over 30 per cent of the Canadian media market, including 14 metropolitan daily newspapers and hundreds of community papers. | | | Many solutions were proposed, including the creation of a government fund to subsidize independent newspapers, stronger limitations on ownership, and various other regulation schemes. | | | While citizen groups in the US are putting unprecedented pressure on Congress to reinstate cross-ownership regulations that the Federal Ccommunications Commission recently attempted to roll back, those concerned about concentration of ownership are realizing that in Canada, the final step of deregulation is a fait accompli. |
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http://dominionpaper.ca/accounts/2003/11/10/journalist.html
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| | FAIR Archives: Browse By Issue Area |
| | Not only are most major media owned by corporations, these companies are becoming larger and fewer in number as the biggest ones absorb their rivals. | | | At the same time, non-corporate, alternative media outlets need to be promoted by both the government and the non-profit sector. | | | The goal of maximizing profits is often in conflict with the practice of responsible journalism. |
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http://www.fair.org/media-woes/corporate.html
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| | Globalization and Communication - Media Ownership Issues |
| | At issue is the maintenance of cultural diversity in Canada amidst both global forces and national media concentration. | | | Others are justly concerned with the decline of public interest imperatives amidst such rampant media concentration and privatization (Hackett, 2000). | | | The federal government has made vague promises to establish a Task Force to look at the issue of media concentration in Canada. |
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http://courseweb.edteched.uottawa.ca/CMN2168/mediaown.htm
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| | Center for Digital Democracy Media Consolidation |
| | Clearly, our opposition prevented such wholesale elimination of what now remains of ownership safeguards. | | | Opportunities should abound for entrepreneurs and small businesses. | | | 11/12/03: Bill Moyers Delivers Keynote Address to the National Conference on Media Reform |
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http://www.democraticmedia.org/issues/mediaownership/index.html
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| | ABC News: Gannett CEO Weighs in on Media Ownership |
| | Gannett's profits declined 3.2 percent on softer broadcasting results, while Media General posted a loss of $316.2 million due to an accounting change. | | | Douglas McCorkindale told investors and analysts on a conference call to discuss the company's first-quarter earnings that he didn't see a way to accelerate the "morass that we're in." | | | The comments came on the same day Gannett and Media General reported their first-quarter earnings. |
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http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=663993
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| | Mass media - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Mass media had the economics of linear replication: a single work could make money proportional to the number of copies sold, and as volumes went up, units costs went down, increasing profit margins further. | | | In a democratic society, an independent media serves to educate the public/electorate about issues regarding government and corporate entities (see Mass media and public opinion). | | | The term "corporate media" is rather used by leftist media critics to imply that the mainstream media is manipulated by large multinational corporations. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_media
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| | Personal Interests |
| | Editor of this review service with some 20 topical contributors carrying more than 600 reviews annually; I write better than a third of them. | | | “Electronic Media Ownership Concentration,” before House Subcommittee on General Oversight and Minority Enterprise (Committee on Small Business), March 3, 1980, printed in MEDIA CONCENTRATION: HEARINGS (PART 2), 96th Cong., 2nd Sess., pp.30-143. | | | Four invited lectures on American multimedia and information policy to business and academic groups, and participated in a workshop for OFTA, the telecommunications regulatory authority, October 1996. |
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http://www.chrissterling.com/vita-full.html
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| | MediaChannel.org - A Global Network of More Than 1,000 Media Issues Groups |
| | Free Press is a national, nonpartisan organization that works to increase public participation in the media reform debate and to create policies that will safeguard a public interest-oriented media system with a strong non-profit sector. | | | Each day, veteran news dissector Danny Schechter splices and slices the latest on media moguls and mavericks. | | | Think media ownership will fail to feature in this year's election coverage? |
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http://www.mediachannel.org/ownership
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| | Canada’s Media Monopoly |
| | The Quebec provincial government has said it might introduce legislation to force "a plurality of opinion" and diverse sources of information, according to culture minister Diane Lemieux. | | | The company also said locally-written material should not contradict the party line handed down in corporate editorials. | | | CanWest set off the media furor in December with its a decision to require all of its daily newspapers to run corporate editorials produced in its Winnipeg head office. |
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http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1106
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| | The Post - Breaking news |
| | For example, people are dissatisfied with some public bodies because their members are appointed by Government ministers. | | | Navigation News News Features The Market Media & Marketing Comment & Analysis Computers In Business Profile Property Motoring Agenda Letters | | | She added that a number of politicians felt that there was a huge distrust of them from the public that was undeserved, and that many are “understandably frustrated” with the current system. |
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http://www.thepost.ie/breakingnews/breaking_story.asp?j=55447048&p=55447z9z&n=55447346
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| | I Want Media - Media Consolidation, Media Mergers |
| | The Balance of Media Power Is Poised to Change | | | House Votes to Prevent Change in Media Rule | | | Stay current on media deals, issues and trends. |
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http://www.iwantmedia.com/consolidation.html
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| | Media Reform Information Center |
| | Off the Record: What Media Corporations Don't Tell You About Their Legislative Agendas | | | (article on the media reform movement in The Nation magazine's media reform issue (Jan 2002)) | | | Media Industry Efforts to Eliminate and Weaken the Ownership Rules: What it Means for the Public and the Future of the Internet |
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http://www.corporations.org/media
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| | State PIRGs: Reform Our Media |
| | As a result, we’re not getting information on the most important civic ssues like elections, let alone a discussion of local affairs. | | | We’re working to make broadcasters on publicly-owned airwaves accountable to the local public. | | | Reduce ownership limits so that they can get even bigger; |
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http://www.pirg.org/consumer/media
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| | Reclaim the Media |
| | How do familiar narratives impose themselves on news coverage? | | | In many cases, media coverage has adopted and perpetuated racist stereotypes, and avoided challenging or even recognizing prejudice in the actions and statements of government managers, media commentators, and members of the public. | | | As the Bush administration prepared for war in 2002 and 2003, the US establishment media largely abdicated their roles of challenging the government's PR frames and specious arguments. |
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http://www.reclaimthemedia.org
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| | FCC Strategic Goals: Media - Media Ownership |
| | The June 2 decision was the culmination of a 20-month review process that began in 2001, when FCC Chairman Powell created the Media Ownership Working Group (MOWG) and charged it with developing a solid factual foundation for re-evaluating FCC media ownership policies. | | | As required by law, the FCC analyzed each of its six broadcast ownership rules to determine if they were “necessary in the public interest as the result of competition.” After analyzing the largest public record in the agency’s history, the FCC: | | | The FCC also had to consider two federal court decisions striking down some of its rules and requiring the FCC to do a better job of justifying any limits on media ownership. |
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http://www.fcc.gov/ownership
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| | Boston.com / News / Local / Vt. / Sanders lauds court's ruling on media ownership rules |
| | Sanders said the Senate had passed legislation slowing the FCC's push to allow greater media concentration, but House Speaker Dennis Hastert had blocked a vote on the issue despite 205 House members having signed a letter asking that he allow such a vote. | | | "If the media (are) owned by fewer and fewer large companies, it is a real danger to democracy and the need of the people to get a diversity of veiwpoints," Sanders said. | | | The decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia marked a major setback to the FCC's efforts to deregulate media ownership rules and allow media companies to own multiple print and broadcast outlets in the same market. |
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http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2004/06/24/sanders_lauds_courts_ruling_on_media_ownership_rules
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| | Media Ownership Working Group Studies |
| | FCC > Strategic Goals > Media > Ownership > Studies | | | Radio Industry Review 2002: Trends in Ownership, Format, and Finance | | | A Comparison of Media Outlets and Owners for Ten Selected Markets: 1960, 1980, 2000. |
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http://www.fcc.gov/ownership/studies.html
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| | CPT'S Selected Data on Concentration in Telecommunications |
| | Proposed Senate changes in concentration and cross-ownership rules | | | Proposed House changes in concentration and cross-ownership rules | | | July 15, 1995 letter on Federal Telecommunications Legislation - Impact on Media Concentration. |
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http://www.cptech.org/telecom/seldata.html
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