Comments on: Total Transparency: Toward Integrity or Artifice? http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/06/total_transpare.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Tue, 14 Feb 2012 05:18:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Patrick S. O'Donnell http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/06/total_transpare.html/comment-page-1#comment-53405 Patrick S. O'Donnell Sun, 01 Jul 2007 02:46:44 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/06/total-transparency-toward-integrity-or-artifice.html#comment-53405 Thanks Frank. Please tell us you have a bevy of research assistants who help you keep track of all this wonderful stuff! Thanks Frank. Please tell us you have a bevy of research assistants who help you keep track of all this wonderful stuff!

]]> By: Frank http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/06/total_transpare.html/comment-page-1#comment-53404 Frank Sun, 01 Jul 2007 02:37:07 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/06/total-transparency-toward-integrity-or-artifice.html#comment-53404 Agree re McChesney--his work is very powerful. My upcoming co-authored piece on search engines relies in part on Rich Media, Poor Democracy. Yochai Benkler's work may also be of interest to those concerned about media concentration. The following chart gives a good sense of the degree of concentration and interlocking connections between mass media: http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060703/mediachart An American Berlusconi may well be slouching toward Washington. Agree re McChesney–his work is very powerful. My upcoming co-authored piece on search engines relies in part on Rich Media, Poor Democracy. Yochai Benkler’s work may also be of interest to those concerned about media concentration.

The following chart gives a good sense of the degree of concentration and interlocking connections between mass media:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060703/mediachart

An American Berlusconi may well be slouching toward Washington.

]]> By: Patrick S. O'Donnell http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/06/total_transpare.html/comment-page-1#comment-53403 Patrick S. O'Donnell Sun, 01 Jul 2007 01:31:56 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/06/total-transparency-toward-integrity-or-artifice.html#comment-53403 "Coverage of real policy differences, rather than slips of the tongue, would be refreshing." Agreed. And we might consider the prospects of this ever occurring in the light of the following: "the media have become a significant *anti-democratic* force in the United States and, to varying degrees, worldwide." As Robert W. McChesney explains, "Behind the lustrous glow of new technologies and electronic jargon, the media system has become increasingly concentrated and conglomerated into a relative handful of corporate hands. This concentration accentuates the core tendencies of a profit-driven, advertising-supported media system: hypercommercialism and denigration of journalism and public service. It is a poison-pill for democracy." Please see his book, Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times (New York: The New Press, 2000). “Coverage of real policy differences, rather than slips of the tongue, would be refreshing.” Agreed. And we might consider the prospects of this ever occurring in the light of the following: “the media have become a significant *anti-democratic* force in the United States and, to varying degrees, worldwide.” As Robert W. McChesney explains, “Behind the lustrous glow of new technologies and electronic jargon, the media system has become increasingly concentrated and conglomerated into a relative handful of corporate hands. This concentration accentuates the core tendencies of a profit-driven, advertising-supported media system: hypercommercialism and denigration of journalism and public service. It is a poison-pill for democracy.” Please see his book, Rich Media, Poor Democracy: Communication Politics in Dubious Times (New York: The New Press, 2000).

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