La concentración en las industrias de la comunicación. Reflexiones desde Québec

Abstract

The relationship between ownership of the media companies and informational and cultural content, and more specifically between the concentration of capital and its eventual consequences in terms of pluralism and diversity of production, is not a new subject. In Canada, in 1969 the concentration of capital in the communication companies was publicly discussed for the first time, in the framework of the activity of the Special Senate Committee on the mass media presided over by the liberal senator Keith Davey (Canada, 1970). The latter's nomination by the prime minister of the liberal government of the time, Pierre Elliott Trudeau, resulted from the concern expressed by numerous persons proceeding from the political, trade union and communications areas; this concern referred to the concentration, over the course of several decades, of the media in the hands of a small number of owners.