William Hoynes is Chair of the Sociology Department at Vassar College and author of several books on the US media industry, including Public Television for Sale: Media, the Market, and the Public Sphere and, most recently (with David Croteau), The Business of Media: Corporate Media and the Public Interest.

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The information that people receive through the media, and the ideas and arguments they can access, help to shape their decisions as citizens as well as consumers. Thus, discussion about the evidence and implications of the pattern of media ownership is ultimately about the character of a democratic society itself.