Advertising and a Democratic Press (Princeton Legacy Library) - Hardcover

Baker, C. Edwin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691032580 ISBN 13: 9780691032580

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1993

Synopsis

In this provocative book, C. Edwin Baker argues that print advertising seriously distorts the flow of news by creating a powerfully corrupting incentive: the more newspapers depend financially on advertising, the more they favor the interests of advertisers over those of readers. Advertising induces newspapers to compete for a maximum audience with blandly "objective" information, resulting in reduced differentiation among papers and the eventual collapse of competition among dailies.

Originally published in 1994.

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About this title

About the Author

C. Edwin Baker is Nicholas F. Gallicchio Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania.

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691032580
• ISBN 13: 9780691032580
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 214