Law in the Internet Society

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Working Title: The Fourth Estate

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>		The changing face of the media and implications for free speech policy. Newspapers, Broadcasters used to be able to make 20, 30% profits because of monopoly power/local advertising appeal; this allowed them to invest in investigative journalism and over-seas reporters and local stories. These are the first things that get cut once media starts loosing money because technological change has destroyed their monopoly on advertising. Citizen bloggers can cover local and state-level issues. Citizens bloggers are both more vulnerable to free speech chilling effects but also more resistant to outright censorship.
 Signs of the death of print and broadcast media are everywhere these days:

The Fourth Estate: Media as watchdogs


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