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Attack ownership concentration and advertising.

For instance, it should not be legal to own in whole or part media that are present both in print and television. And advertisement should be prohibited on television. Among other things.

- Jake

If you only spend 20 minutes of the rest of your life on economics, go spend them here.

by JakeS (JangoSierra 'at' gmail 'dot' com) on Thu Feb 4th, 2010 at 08:43:15 AM EST
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Further along those lines, encourage the radical de-centralization of all production and distribution.  Break up national networks entirely.  Produce everything locally or regionally, news and entertainment and education.  People employed in creative media enterprises is a net good, heck with redundancy or efficiency.

A while ago, I posted a diary on how to fund media while prohibiting advertising - keep the ratings system, but have it direct money from a public fund to the popular media entities directly.

Ownership controls - media cannot be owned by conglomerates, and media organs cannot own each other or have any ownership stakes in each other.  Maybe even prohibit entirely the public ownership of companies - they must stay and remain the private property of individuals.

by Zwackus on Thu Feb 4th, 2010 at 10:32:08 PM EST
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