CMST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Liberal Democracy, Public Knowledge, Fourth Estate
14 Mar 2016
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Prining press-many voices, sharing informaion early : religious development -chrisian bible later : individualism = entrepreneurs even later : response by workers, social interests. Progression of press ownership disorganizaion (many producers) alignment with (or ownership by) poliical paries (edit news content that favored a paricular poliical paries) ownership by corporaions. **canadian charter of rights and freedoms (1982) :freedom of thought, belief, opinion and expression, including freedom of the press ,etc. this is same as usa-irst amendment similar to un declaraion of human rights** Social role of the press liberal theory: the role of mass media is to preserve liberal democracy by disseminaing informaion. Marxist theory: mass media promotes the interests of the dominant class to maintain exising poliical systems criical theory: media can be biased or self interested, but generally provide muliple perspecives on issues and events. Centre of media ownership (e. g. state or private industry) tends to bias the interests of media.
