Re: Media ownership part two [cr-95/10/19]

1995-10-23

Sender: LECLERC YVES <•••@••.•••>

> On Thu, 19 Oct 1995, Cyber Rights wrote:
>
> > I would be interested to get information on studies, Government
> > proposals, surveys, discussions in the field of media ownership,
> > in the perspective of media concentration and its consequences
> > for freedom of expression. We are just now publishing a
> > bibliography on the subject which is going to be regularly
> > updated.
> >
> > A point of specific interest is also to know about projects of
> > databases or registers being established in order to keep track
> > of ownership of media enterprises and changes in this structure.

I would assume that, at least for radio and TV, the FCC would keep this
type of record (as does the CRTC in Canada). For print media, my best bet
would be the USIA main office in Washington, D.C., next best the Harvard
School of Journalism.

Yves Leclerc          Dead-End Democracy? or open-ended government...
<•••@••.•••>    Montreal, Quebec


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