Pacific Journalism Review (Sep 2004)

Welcome to Havana, Mr Corleone: Issues of media ownership and control

  • Robert W. Mc Chesney

DOI
https://doi.org/10.24135/pjr.v10i2.802
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 2

Abstract

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In the United States the media system is set up to maximise profit for a relative handful of large companies. The system works well for them, but it is a disaster for the communication needs of a healthy and self-governing society. The problem is not with the poorly trained or unethical journalists; in fact, I suspect they may well be as talented and ethical as any generation of journalists in memory. It is the context journalists work in that is the problem.

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