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Federal Communications Law Journal

2009

Convergence Hypothesis

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Viewpoint Diversity And Media Ownership, C. Edwin Baker Jun 2009

Viewpoint Diversity And Media Ownership, C. Edwin Baker

Federal Communications Law Journal

A recent technically sophisticated study of the impact of media mergers on viewpoint diversity that found the impact is contextually variable should be entirely irrelevant to proper policy debates about regulation of media ownership. This Article examines the real reasons to oppose concentrated ownership and considers how the recent study went wrong.