James Curran is professor of communications at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and External Editor of the Media and the Net themes at openDemocracy.

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The combative debate on media ownership has highlighted the importance both of new global megacorporations and of the multiplicity of the commercial landscape. But, concludes openDemocracy’s media co-editor, the combination of money and power in sustaining media oligopoly and monopoly continues to pose serious questions about the state of democracy.

As the innovative Al Jazeera station opens out to a new audience across the Arab world, governments are pressing broadcasters to collaborate in their management of the public mind.

The new media landscape demands fresh, undogmatic thinking. Three wise men launch the media debate on an unsuspecting world.