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<lastBuildDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:50:53 +0100</lastBuildDate><item><title>&#x3c;h3&#x3e;CPBF Policy Proposals&#x3c;/h3&#x3e;</title><dc:creator>gherman@KeywordsAssociates.com</dc:creator><category>None</category><dc:date>2009-08-25T17:41:54+01:00</dc:date><link>http://www.cpbf.org.uk/mediaforallconference/page8/files/e9957916d4f99fed7a43f73204c2731e-1.html#unique-entry-id-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.cpbf.org.uk/mediaforallconference/page8/files/e9957916d4f99fed7a43f73204c2731e-1.html#unique-entry-id-1</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The relentless, deregulatory, free-market economic ideology of Rupert Murdoch&rsquo;s global media group  has been damaging and distorting UK media since the 1970s: predatory pricing with newspapers; the attempt to block potential competition from Virgin Media through the acquisition of ITV shares; and the continuous assault by News International papers on the BBC since the mid-80s.


...Edwin Baker&rsquo;s chapter, &lsquo;Not a Real Problem: The Market or the Internet Will Provide&rsquo;, in Media Concentration and Democracy, argues against the &lsquo;misguided invocation of the Internet as a total solution to problems of the communications order, including the problem of concentration&rsquo; and suggests &lsquo;...a suspicion remains that this invocation of the Internet as a purported end of discussion primarily serves ideological deregulatory and other corporate purposes&rsquo;. ...  He points out the data reveals that not all that many people look for political information on the internet; not all web sites are created equal (there is &lsquo;Googlearchy&rsquo; at every level of the web), and that there are some indications that debate on the internet is less equal than offline media such as newspapers; and the new elites of the digital age, at least in the US, look like the old ones - mostly white, upper middle class, male and educated at prestigious universities. 
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