Does corporate and concentrated media ownership undermine the capacity of news media to fulfil it...

1. Foreign Owned Media

1.1. Channel ten has just been bought by CNN, the american owned network

1.2. Media which is invested into by other nations. E.g. Australian film made in North Korea- heavily regulated and restricted to be nationalistic by North Korean Officials

2. ABC Funding Cuts

2.1. http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-19/abc-funding-cuts-announced-by-malcolm-turnbull/5902774

2.1.1. The ABC will have its budget cut by $254 million over the next five years, Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced. Mr Turnbull said the ABC would receive $5.2 billion in funding over that time - a cut of 4.6 per cent.

2.2. ABC seems to be the least biased form of media that we in Australia have access to. Therefore the cuts via the government are manipulating and undermining the information received within the democracy

3. Finkelstein Enquiry

3.1. http://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/transcripts/1205_finkelstein.pdf

3.2. Report and inquiry into media which found that the way media is regulated in Australia is not rigorous enough to ensure accountability and transparency. It proposes that a new statutory body, the News Media Council, be created to set and enforce journalistic standards across all media – including online.

4. Murdoch and the influence of politics

5. Internet?

5.1. The internet can function as a tool/ forum for public opinions. However it seems to just be a new medium for which we share and receive the same news information from the existing sources like fairfax or newscorp.

6. News Corp.

6.1. Murdoch's influence within politics....

6.2. Herald Sun, The Australian...

6.3. According to the Finkelstein Review of Media and Media Regulation, in 2011 News Corp Australia (then News Limited) accounted for 23% of the newspaper titles in Australia

7. News start-ups (e.g. Hoopla)

8. Fairfax

8.1. In Australia, mastheads include The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, The Australian Financial Review, The Canberra Times, The Sun-Herald,

9. Is media meant to be political?

9.1. Social Democratic approach: Media shouldn't be political, nor hold a political bias or ideology as it is factual.

9.2. Neoliberal approach: Factual media does not sell. E.g. Andrew Bolt appeals to big corporate media as he is a shock jock and has the appeal to many readers for "entertainment" purposes. His writing is ideologically driven.

10. Media ownership regulation

10.1. http://www.aph.gov.au/About_Parliament/Parliamentary_Departments/Parliamentary_Library/Publications_Archive/archive/mediaregulation

10.1.1. Cross-Media Control Under section 60 a person must not control: a commercial television broadcasting licence and a commercial radio broadcasting licence having the same licence area a commercial television broadcasting licence and a newspaper associated with that licence area or a commercial radio broadcasting licence and newspaper associated with that licence area. There are also similar limits on cross-media directorships