democratizing media ownership

Democratizing Media Ownership : 

Democratizing Media Ownership

Media Ownership : 

Media Ownership The media is solely in control by the government Authoritarian regimes regularly try to censor or control the mass media provision of vision and information.

Marcos Regime : 

Marcos Regime Marcos had held the media firmly in his grip Controlled the media by limiting the ownership of newspapers and broadcast stations to his kin and cronies Media ownership was limited to a section of the elite

Post-Marcos : 

Post-Marcos After the People Power uprising in 1986, the structure of media ownership in the Philippines was transformed. The media blossomed. There were two dozen daily newspapers publishing out of Manila alone Six TV networks

Post-Marcos : 

Post-Marcos Virtually no controls on the press No license were required to set up newspapers There was a hunger for news; the media fill the need

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Ms. Ninotchka Rosca said rich families and their cronies control most of the major newspapers. “Structurally, the ownership of all these major newspapers (and broadcast media) is geared towards the ruling class of the Philippines. So ownership is the first restriction on press freedom. And if owners of a newspaper or publication happen to run counter to the dominant bias of the (ruling class) culture, then the owners are going to be in great trouble”

Opposing Ownership Concentration : 

Opposing Ownership Concentration Main Reasons *Power -that dispersion creates democratic or political safeguards and gets media into the hands of the owners more likely to favor quality over profits- have a more pragmatic logic

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*Democratic Safeguards -concentrated media ownership creates the possibility of an individual decision-maker exercising enormous, unequal and hence undemocratic largely unchecked, potentially irresponsible power.

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*Quality and the Bottom Line The relentless pursuit of profits and constant focus on the bottom-line restrict investment in creating the mass and other cultural media content that people want and citizens need This bottom-line orientation tends to be most extreme among larger conglomerates, especially public traded ones.

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Nowadays, there is no government regulations which can restrict press freedom, but Philippine media now precisely face a new dilemma to articulate democracy issues and public interests.

Estrada administration : 

Estrada administration The government could pressure to media that impact of political factor Estrada has political power and built advertiser groups

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Example of the influence of advertiser: When (milk) one of the products of the biggest corporation Magnolia in the Philippines found bacteria, some reporters had to report it but only The Philippine Daily Inquirer published it.

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Although there is virtually no government control of publishing and no official censorship, the Philippine media operate under one of laxes system of state supervision in Asia, only restrained by laws on libel and sedition.

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And because of this, journalists/reporters of today found the need of democratizing media ownership to improve the press condition of our country. According to Sheila Coronel of the PCIJ, it will help restore the credibility and self-respect of journalists and enhance freedom press.

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But whether media is controlled or not, it is still our choice as a future journalist on what will be our stand. Certainly, we have to realize that press freedom can give the positive and negative impact.