Converging Media, Diverging Politics A

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.

Prologue: Has a Free Press Helped to Kill Democracy?

1

(6)

Robert Jensen

Mapping the Threads

7

(18)

David Skinner

James R. Compton

Mike Gasher

U.S. Media Policy Then and Now

25

(26)

Robert B. Horwitz

So Much by So Few: Media Policy and Ownership in Canada

51

(26)

David Skinner

Mike Gasher

Clear Channel: The Poster Child for Everything That's Wrong with Consolidation

77

(24)

Dorothy Kidd

Francisco McGee

Danielle Fairbairn

Aspergate: Concentration, Convergence, and Censorship in Canadian Media

101

(16)

Leslie Regan Shade

Hyper-Commercialism and the Media: The Threat to Journalism and Democratic Discourse

117

(28)

Mark Cooper

News Agency Dominance in International News on the Internet

145

(20)

Chris Paterson

Bourdieu's ``Show and Hide'' Paradox Reconsidered: Audience Experiences of Convergence in the Canadian Mediascape

165

(22)

Debra Clarke

Reforming Media: Parries and Pirouettes in the U.S. Policy Process

187

(14)

Ben Scott

Angels of the Public Interest: U.S. Media Reform

201

(22)

Dorothy Kidd

Journalism Education in the Posthistorical University

223

(26)

Jeanette McVicker

The Alternative Communication Movement in Quebec's Mediascape

249

(18)

Michel Senecal

Frederic Dubois

Canadian Cyberactivism in the Cycle of Counterglobalization Struggles

267

(24)

Nick Dyer-Witheford

Turning the Tide

291

(14)

David Skinner

James R. Compton

Mike Gasher

Bibliography

305

(30)

Index

335

(6)

List of Contributors

341

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

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