Comments on: MediaCon: the most obvious point (you’d think they’d at least fake it for now) https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2191 2002-2015 Thu, 22 May 2003 14:17:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.2 By: Tom Haviland https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2191#comment-1287 Thu, 22 May 2003 14:17:45 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2003/05/mediacon_the_most_obvious_poin.html#comment-1287 Democratic Presidential candidate Howard Dean has IMHO an excellent comment on media consolidation on his campaign blog at http://deancalltoaction.blogspot.com/.

He’s against it. He cites the treatment of the Dixie Chicks as a primary example of inappropriate use of media power.

]]> By: Erik Ostrom https://archives.lessig.org/?p=2191#comment-1286 Thu, 22 May 2003 14:09:32 +0000 http://lessig.org/blog/2003/05/mediacon_the_most_obvious_poin.html#comment-1286 The Merc is a Knight-Ridder newspaper–definitely big media. I think Gillmor is great, but he isn’t evidence that big media won’t compromise journalism–he’s just evidence that they haven’t completely obliterated it. I don’t think journalism has ever been pure and objective, and I don’t think it’ll become completely corporate; it’s the shade of the gray area in between that we have to worry about.

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