|Reading |Hollander, R. and Cowan, P. 2007 ‘Government Global Media’, in E. van Acker and G. Curran (eds) Globalizing Government |
|full Reference |Business Relations, Frenchs Forest, NSW: Pearson Education, Chapter 12. |
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| |Hollander and Cowen points out that the news media is the “fourth estate” and occupies a central place in a practical system. |
| |The authors in this chapter begin with how important and the influence news media has on politics and businesses in the |
| |introduction. Hollander and Cowen then discusses two main points the first is Globalization and Old media and second |
|Main point(s) made by |Globalization and New media. When Hollander and Cowen discuss globalization and old media they discuss old media and the |
|the author(s) |ownership and concentration with examples of government in many countries attempts to control old news media by imposing |
| |ownership restrictions, also their attempt to protect media diversity by establishing complex regulatory regimes. Then they |
| |discuss old media and the news and diversity. The government’s primary goals were to maintain a national identity culture |
| |diversity and not the news and analysis essential to a healthy polity. Hollander and Cowen then discuss and examine in |
| |Globalization and new media the new modes of media. It begins with cable and satellite and the owners and operators, here its |
| |pointed out that there is an increasing individual control over what people want to hear, see and read. Then cable and |
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