Media Studies A-Level
Tension between public service and market freedom
What Tension between public service and market freedom means in Media Studies A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Tension between public service and market freedom
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Commercial broadcasters may argue obligations distort competition, and commercial pressure can be presented as a challenge to PSB obligations.
Topics that use Tension between public service and market freedom
- Regulation as summarised by Livingstone and Lunt (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Citizen versus consumer framing
- Citizen versus consumer interest
- Contested purposes of media regulation
- Contested regulation
- Globalisation
- Independence from state and commercial pressure
- Inequality in audience competence
- Jurisdiction
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