Media imperialism

Media imperialism is both a political slogan and criticized too much influence of Western (especially American ) media world. In recent times the keyword is also used to criticism of globalization in terms of the global mass media. Media imperialism is also used as a partial aspect of the hypothesis of cultural imperialism.

1960 to 1989

With the onset of decolonization, the buzzword of the media imperialism came on. A new type of imperialism step on so; many nations would be penalized to the media products of some of the most powerful countries or companies criticized the dictatorships in the Third World and the Eastern Bloc. As a countermeasure, a new world information order was requested, so strengthening local media compared to those of the former colonial powers. In fact, hiding behind this demand, the desire for censorship.

Globalization

With the collapse of the Eastern Bloc, the discussion of a new world information order, which should end the Medienimperalismus broke off. With the onset of globalization critique the slogan was taken up again and discussed with new focal points of the opponents of globalization.

This formulated the hypothesis that multinational media conglomerates grow strong and powerful and would that survival for small local media outlets would become increasingly difficult. Among the most important authors in this field include Noam Chomsky, Ben Bagdikian, Edward S. Herman and Robert W. McChesney.

The U.S. corporate media coverage would therefore restrict press freedom. The loss of ( journalistic ) integrity is a serious risk among large corporation -led media giants. Combined with the control of information flow reducing this fact the fairness and accuracy of news. U.S. news channels like CNN also often have large international workforces that produce partly country-specific regional programs.

Press concentration

However, under these hypotheses media imperialism is not only a phenomenon at the international level. When a single group has control over all media of a country, there is also a national form of media imperialism. Countries such as Italy and Canada frequently accused the presence of an Imperial media structure, based on the fact that a large part of their media organizations by a group or by an owner (see Silvio Berlusconi ) is controlled. Another buzzword for this news media concentration is dictatorship.

A media source that ignore important issues and / or censored, harms the freedom of information seriously. Many modern tabloid media, and other mainstream media are criticized in this context due to their lack of adherence to general standards of journalistic integrity.