A series expanding on the industry structure
after the introduction of rich media.
Rich Media, Poor Democracy - Part One
Note: the lighting on parts of these videos is rather strange,
but the message is clear and interesting.
This parts focuses on mergers of large media companies into
huge media conglomerates. As they seek cross promotion between
media channels, their markets are expanding across the globbe.
This is leading to cross production of the content into different
levels of media format. Together, the blockbuster channel
appears to be driving the focus of media competition. [10
mins]
Rich Media, Poor Democracy - Part Two
We look at regulation and deregulation on the part of private
parties in the media market place. The recent bill deregulated
telecommunications companies to bring the competition down
to a few. The radio industry was also deregulated to change
the ownership limit from 40, to 1996 to unlimited numbers,
driving a conglomeration of radio media giants. What impact
has this had on reporting independence. [10 mins]
Rich Media, Poor Democracy - Part Three
How is conglomeration of media impacting the integrity of
background journalism. We look at war coverage, dominated
by weathly corporations. Are they fostering independent reporting
or reporting that reflects the values of the corporate owners.
[8:51 mins]
The ongoing is posing a danger to democracy.
Scandals in corporates ripping of their customers and employees
alike, are these the entitites we wish to entrust are media
reporting to.
If healthy journalism was still alive, it is likely that
this corporate corruption may have been identified and exposed
well before these companies hit the dirt, and took a lot of
the public with them.
