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Media System, Public Knowledge and DemocracyA Comparative StudyCommunications at Goldsmiths, University of London, Media and Communications Department, New Cross, London SE14 6NW, UK, j.curran{at}gold.ac.uk
Communications and of Political Science, Department of Communication, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA, siyengar @stanford.edu
CBS International Centre for Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Steen Blichers Vej 22, DK-2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark, abl.cbp{at}cbs.dk
Academy of Finland, University of Helsinki, Communication, University of Tallinn, Estonia, inka.moring{at}helsinki.fi
Key Words: democracy • marketization • media system • news reporting • public knowledge
European Journal of Communication, Vol. 24, No. 1,
5-26 (2009) This article has been cited by other articles:
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This article addresses the implications of the movement towards entertainment-centred, market-driven media by comparing what is reported and what the public knows in four countries with different media systems. The different systems are public service (Denmark and Finland), a `dual' model (UK) and the market model (US). The comparison shows that public service television devotes more attention to public affairs and international news, and fosters greater knowledge in these areas, than the market model. Public service television also gives greater prominence to news, encourages higher levels of news consumption and contributes to a smaller within-nation knowledge gap between the advantaged and disadvantaged. But wider processes in society take precedence over the organization of the media in determining how much people know about public life. 
