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Choice and Content:Media Ownership and Democratic Ideals in Canada
- By Kelly Bildook
- Media ownership in Canada and the
attempt to uncover concerns to
ownership patterns
- Dean Alger: A democracy is a marketplace of ideas
where people and organizations can express info and
ideas.
- Free Press: The idea of free and open exchange of ideas and expressions.
- Free Press: The idea of free and open exchange of ideas and expressions.
- Media ownership in Canada and the
attempt to uncover concerns to
ownership patterns
- Marketplace of Ideas: originated
from John Milton and formally
developed by John Mill. An
understand of truth could be
achieved through exchange of
ideas
- Competitive market is necessary for the exchange
of ideas –consumers are able to make informed
decisions. To maintain a vibrant marketplace, a
media market includes both choice of outlets and
diversity of content. Both have consequences for
Canadian democracy.
- Main concern of media: relates to
ownership, will not serve ideals of democracy
because owners may provide a limited choice
in terms of where consumers can get info.
- James Squire -> modern press is no longer an institution dedicated to
public interest but to run solely in the intersect of the high possible
level of profitability
- “Black Tuesday” started in 1980 when a competitive trade-off was
made between two largest newspaper owners at the time-Southern
and Thomson. Tribune newspaper (Winnipeg) gave Thomson
owned Winnipeg Free Press a monopoly in the city while Thomson
closed Ottawa Journal and left Ottawa Citizen as only daily in
Ottawa.
- Actions led to major review of mass media by Canadian federal
governent in 1980 with Royal Commission on Newspapers (Kent
Commission).
- • Media should inform, not direct the democratic process.
- • Media should inform, not direct the democratic process.
- Actions led to major review of mass media by Canadian federal
governent in 1980 with Royal Commission on Newspapers (Kent
Commission).
- 3 forms of accessing the impact of ownership on
content:1st: looking at the practices of specific
media corporations and whether they appear to
have influenced the content of output. 2nd: looking
at those interests are served by media agenda. 3rd:
comparing differences in content on a topic
between those organizations that have an interest
in the topics versus those who have no interest.
- 1996 Telecommunications
Acts -> proposals to loosen
restrictions on TV ownership
covered the topic differently
than those without interests.
- 2006 Report on the Canadian
News Media -> the right of
proprietors to voice their
opinions on their editorial
pages has long been
considered fundamental to
freedom of the press.
- 1970 Special Senate Committee on Mass
Media (the Davey Report) and 1980-81
Kent Commission, the publishing industry
in Canada remains subject only to
Competition Act which governs based on
economic market forces and to certain
provisions in the Income Tax Act that
encourages Canadian ownership and
content through significant tax incentives
for advertisers.
- 2008: CRTC brought in
regulations that would limit total
ownership of broadcast media to
45% of national share and limit
cross-ownership of media in
Canada. Ensure that no single
owner can control more than 2
mass media forms in a local
market.
- Kent Commission conceded that arguments
regarding financial stability strengthen the
claim of the benefit of chain newspapers.
Made significant recommendations to restrict
number of newspapers and media owned by
single corporations. 2006 senate report made
similar recommendations focusing on
cross-ownership with newsgathering.
- 2008: CRTC brought in
regulations that would limit total
ownership of broadcast media to
45% of national share and limit
cross-ownership of media in
Canada. Ensure that no single
owner can control more than 2
mass media forms in a local
market.
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