This uptodate accessible textbook presents a comprehensive overview of thehistory present and future prospects of French media and considers thesuccesses and fa... » 

This uptodate accessible textbook presents a comprehensive overview of thehistory present and future prospects of French media and considers thesuccesses and failures of the French media policy from 1945 to the present day.Raymond Kuhn investigates the politics and economics of the press radio andtelevision from the days of state intervention and monopoly provision tocurrent trends towards deregulation and pluralism and discusses the importanceof the new media of cable and satellite broadcasting. Kuhn explores inparticular the changing interrelationship between media and state asownership and indirect interference decline while the state remains a key partof the media landscape in its policy making and regulatory roles.The Media in France is essential reading for all students of French Europeanand Media Studies. «