Media Concentration and Democracy: Why Ownership Matters » (1ST)

C. Edwin Baker is the Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and has been on the faculty at Penn since
1981. He also taught at NYU, Chicago, Cornell, Texas, Oregon, and Toledo law schools and at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and he was a staff attorney for the ACLU. He is the author of three earlier books: Media, Markets, and Democracy (Cambridge, 2002), which won the 2002 McGannon Communications Policy Research Award; Advertising and a Democratic Press (1994); and Human Liberty and Freedom of Speech (1989). He has written more than fifty academic articles about free speech, equality, property, law and economics, jurisprudence, and the mass media, in addition to occasional popular commentary.

This book provides a normative critique of mass media ownership concentration.

Preface     xi
Introduction     1
Democracy at the Crossroads: Why Ownership Matters     5
Not a Real Problem: Many Owners, Many Sources     54
Not a Real Problem: The Market or the Internet Will Provide     88
The First Amendment Guarantee of a Free Press: An Objection to Regulation?     124
Solutions and Respons     163
"Postscript: Policy Opportunism     190
Notes     203
Index     249