Benjamin Compaine

Ben Compaine is currently a senior research affiliate at the Internet and Telecoms Convergence Consortium at M.I.T.

A world without absolutes

Many of the pieces in this debate provided case studies in some aspect of local media ownership, while three (Hoynes, Hesmondhalgh, and Elstein) took on the broad question of ownership,

By Benjamin Compaine

/ 8 May 2002

The workable real versus the absolutist ideal

Robert McChesneys reply to my article brings to mind a caller to a radio talk show not long ago whom I heard say that Detroit should build the safest

By Benjamin Compaine

/ 22 Nov 2001

The myths of encroaching global media ownership

Is corporate media ownership leading to a dangerous, undemocratic concentration of power and editorial control? In my view it is not. The democracy of the marketplace may be flawed but

By Benjamin Compaine

/ 8 Nov 2001