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Benjamin CompaineBen Compaine has been studying information technology and the media industry since the early 1970s. He is currently a senior research affiliate at the Internet and Telecoms Convergence Consortium at M.I.T. His most recent book is The Digital Divide: Facing a Crisis or Creating a Myth? Recent articlesA world without absolutes Benjamin Compaine concedes that most participants in openDemocracy’s media ownership debate sympathised with Robert McChesney, but draws from its global perspective support for his claim that pluralism and diversity are compatible with a market-based system. The workable real versus the absolutist idealRobert McChesney’s criticism of the media ownership system depends on a form of absolutism that, without evidence, deplores existing diversity in the name of an ideal alternative. What would the latter look like? The myths of encroaching global media ownershipMedia conglomerates are not as powerful as they seem, for even corporations must respect the discipline of the market. A diverse media reflects the plurality of publics in modern society. This is democracy in action. |
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