INSERT>art. politics + economics|vol.1 #1
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following text is copied directly from the media democracy day listed website
above, as such this text is not intended as a critique nor critical study,
the intention is to publicise to a wider audience the idea of a democratic
media rather than a service dominated wholly by capital, ratings and entertainment.
http://www.mediademocracyday.org
| email info@mediademocracyday.org
Media
Democracy Day pushes for and promotes a mass media system that informs
and empowers all members of society, connecting existing critical and creative
media with active social movements to create a coherent message for public
attention, with local and global action. Following the rise of social movements
for feminism, racial justice, and environmentalism in recent decades, international
efforts to democratize the media are now mobilizing for education, protest,
and change. Media Democracy prioritizes diversity over monotony, citizen control
over corporate choice, cultural development over company profit, and public
discourse over public relations. Media Democracy Day is a day of international
action based on three themes: Education - understanding how the media shapes
our world and our democracy Protest - against a media system based on commercialization
and exclusiveness Change - calls for media reforms that respond to public
interests, promote diversity, and ensure community representation and accountability.
This citizens' agenda has been abandoned by government and conveniently side-stepped
by mainstream media.
Why Protest Media Concentration and the Current
Media System? The current media system has been abducted by a group
of 6-9 mega-media conglomerates, twisting the content of the world's media
and pushing out local and non-mainstream media interests. AOL Time Warner,
as an example, controls over 12 film and television companies, multiplex cinemas
in 12 countries, 29 cable/digital providers, 24 book brands, 35 magazine titles,
52 record labels, theme parks and stores in 30 countries, four professional
sports teams, AOL US, AOL International, and eight other major Internet portals.1
At last count. The centralized control of the media by this handful of powerful
corporations fails to provide the diverse viewpoints, local accountability,
and widespread accessibility to high-quality information that the public needs
and deserves. Continued www.mediademocracyday.org
/ info@mediademocracyday.org
