Mass media and media policy in Western Europe
by Humphreys, PeterFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1996-03-28
Publisher(s): Manchester University Press
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Summary
This comparative, textbook analysis explores how television and press systems across Europe have been shaped by technology, economics and politics. The author explores the implications of the commercialisation of national broadcasting systems, and the media policies of the European Union in the age of transfrontier media operations.
Table of Contents
| List of tables | |
| Preface and acknowledgements | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Press freedom, the free market and the development of the modern press | p. 18 |
| Press freedom and its limits: the state, the law and the private individual | p. 43 |
| Press concentration in Western Europe | p. 66 |
| European public-service broadcasting systems | p. 111 |
| The new media and broadcasting deregulation in Western Europe | p. 159 |
| Market trends: internationalisation, media concentration and cross-media ownership | p. 199 |
| The impact of deregulation on programme services and the policy implications | p. 229 |
| The European Community and pan-European broadcasting | p. 256 |
| Conclusion | p. 297 |
| Bibliography | p. 314 |
| Index | p. 328 |
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