Starving the News.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Longman, Phillip
- Source
- Washington Monthly. Nov/Dec2020, Vol. 52 Issue 11/12, p22-27. 6p. 1 Color Photograph, 1 Cartoon or Caricature.
- Subject
- *FREEDOM of the press
*DIGITAL media
*AMERICAN journalism
*GOVERNMENT policy on economic competition
*MONOPOLIES
- Language
- ISSN
- 0043-0633
The article offers solutions so the today's digital media markets will greatly restore the ability of advertising to support quality journalism while benefiting the public interest in many important ways in the U.S. It mentions about making smart competition policy to break the dominance of platform monopolies, particularly Google and Facebook, over media markets. It also informs that monopolies have domination over advertising markets thereby impacting independent press.