What is media plurality? And does it matter?

Time:

  • 02/06/2011
    17:30
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The evening panel discussion will address the following issues:

  • What do we mean by competition and choice in the news media market?

  • Are smaller news providers being squeezed out?

  • Does the News Corp takeover of Sky present a threat to “plurality”?

  • How useful a concept is “plurality” in the digital and new media age – hasn’t choice and access to information ballooned in such a way to allay most or all “plurality” fears?


Featuring:
Steven Barnett, Professor of Communications, Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Westminster
David Elstein, Chairman, openDemocracy
Martin LeJeune, Director, OpenRoad
Richard D North, author of Scrap the BBC!
Angela Phillips, Department of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths University of London
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