Media and democracy [electronic resource] / James Curran.

Introduction
Comparing media. Shining city on hill
Questioning a new orthodoxy
Media system, public knowledge and democracy
Media and democratic theory. Entertaining democracy
Liberal dreams and the internet
Media and new technology. Technology foretold
Future of journalism
Media and history. Narratives of media history revisited
Press as an agency of social control
advertising as a bounty system
Media and culture. Media as custodians of cultural tradition
Media and cultural theory in the age of market liberalism.