
The Press and the Decline of Democracy
The Democratic Socialist Response in Public Policy
- 176 pages
- English
- PDF
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The Press and the Decline of Democracy
The Democratic Socialist Response in Public Policy
About this book
The author discusses the role of economic concentration in limiting public access to information and reducing opportunities for public discourse. Picard examines the government policies that have contributed to the erosion of democratic participation and have permitted the growth of large commercial press entities, unobstructed by anti-trust provisions. He relates recent public policy responses to this problem to democratic socialist ideology and develops a social-democratic theory of the press which draws upon ideas and policies found throughout the Western world. Picard provides a democratic framework for understanding the changing nature of media economics and state-press relations and offers proposals for achieving both a democratically functioning press and broader popular participation.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Figures and Tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Democracy and the Role of the Press
- 2. Philosophical Bases of Democratic Socialist Press Theory
- 3. Models of State-Press Relations
- 4. The Democratic Needs of the Press
- 5. Patterns and Types of Intervention
- 6. Policies for the Future
- Bibliography
- Index