This state of the concentration of the media has been greatly abetted by its critics, who hardly ever articulate a concern about the contradictory and paralysing impulses of the market-based mass media and the expansion of market censorship. Similarly ineffectual have been their attempts to uphold a model of non-market media against their market-based rivals. In the past few years, the European media politics – ironically, but not unexpectedly – underwent a change. As the global economic integration increasingly erodes the meaning of state borders and the economic power of nation-states, the latter have started consolidating the role of “home-grown” media companies. The change has had two consequences. First, the states have become more tolerant of the phenomenon of the media concentration and the dominant media companies have increased their market share, while the number of organisations monitoring the media has dropped. Second, the opposition to the international control of the media concentration has intensified. Methodologically, Bašič Hrvatin and Kučič’s book adheres to the similar investigations conducted by the eminent authors in this field – R. Bagdikian, R. McChesney and D. Alger. It does, however, take a step further, for it shows the impact of the media concentration on the content, that is, the book lays bare the transformation of the concentration of ownership into the concentration of opinion. The case studies of the media concentration in Italy, UK, France, and USA testify to the fact that the power of the media amounts to political power.
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