The impact of Media concentration on information pluralism
Abstract
This article shows how the concentration of media allow to classify, censure, impose a single optical
and interpretation of public space. It points out how the concentration restricts the plurality and the
access to various sources, inhibits freedom of information, and makes it impossible for citizens to
have raw material to form opinions of their own, begin the process of discussion and thus achieve
effective public opinion.
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