This week’s New Matilda contains an article I wrote on potential changes to cross media ownership and what this might mean for media bias. I argue that while there may be a biased media, allowing cross media ownership is unlikely to change that one way or the other. To reduce bias, it is much more important to have diversity within a media channel than across them.
You can access the article (without my picture), here.
Hi Joshua,
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Interested.
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