Guest Editor Introduction: Media Reform and Public Policy

摘要

For the past 30 years, communication policy has been tethered to the neoliberal ideology of deregulation. In practice, "deregulation" entailed the reregulation of communication industries away from publicly determined understandings of the public interest and toward market-driven ones. Reregulation increasingly left the allocation of communication resources to the exigencies of the market, under the presumption that markets could best achieve longstanding policy goals like diversity, access, efficiency, and interconnection.