or the police. For this reason, many of those
who believe in the Internet as a “space of flows” testify to ways in which networks can and do regulate themselves, e.g., ostracizing people who flame, the virtual bombing of ISPs that
host offensive sites.
2. AC640 reading: Robert McChesney’s “Media Policies, Media
Reform”
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of
cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long
plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no
good reason.... Mainly we are dealing with a profoundly degenerate world, a living
web of foulness, greed and treachery . . . which is also the biggest real business
around and impossible to ignore. You can't get away from TV. It is everywhere. The
hog is in the tunnel.
Hunter S. Thompson, journalist and critic, 1937-2005
a. policy and regulation: definitions
Robert McChesney is a professor of communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champaign, and the best-known U.S. commentator on issues relating to political economy
and policy as it relates to telecommunication and media in the U.S. His website—with a
photograph of him--is linked in the Rogue’s Gallery. The article in the AC640 package is
taken from McChesney’s 2004 book, The Problem of the Media: U.S. Communication
st
Century. Before we discuss the article, let’s distinguish policy and
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regulation.
A policy is “a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government.” A
regulation is a “requirement (defined broadly) having the force of law.” Policies offer
philosophical direction and justification for the views of a government (or any other private or
public organization) on a particular area of governance, such as broadcast and
telecommunication policy. Regulation, being quasi-legal in nature, is much more specific in
nature, and is concerned to organize the behavior of people and institutions as they relate to
various issues that might relate or fall under the purview of the established policies. A
broadcast policy, such as the 1991 Broadcasting Act that governs the Canadian media
system, proposes the following cultural goals for Canadian media. Section 3 of the Act
outlines that the Canadian broadcasting system should:
http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/B-9.01/8815.html#rid-8843
The Broadcasting Act:
But specific aspects of the Broadcasting Act clearly have regulatory significance, as they act
to achieve the broad implications of broadcast and telecommunication policy through
specific statutes and rulings. Here is an example of regulatory language from the section 32
of the Broadcast Act:
32. (1) Every person who, not being exempt from the requirement to hold a license, carries
on a broadcasting undertaking without a license therefore is guilty of an offence punishable
on summ
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