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Concentration and lack of plurality of media control is significant and appears to be increasing. The potential danger to a democracy of a lack of plurality of media control is serious. There are opportunities for greater plurality and freedom of expression through professional employee decision making partcipation. There are practical precedents for professional employee management participation in the media. Therefore, professional media employee management participation deserves to be seriously considered. Limitations of the principle are also considered.
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Richard P. Nielsen is Associate Professor at the School of Management, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass. Professor Nielsen publishes frequently in the areas of philosophical and social issues in management as well as strategy and consensus building.
The author would like to thank Professor William Torbert of Boston College for his helpful criticism of this article.
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Nielsen, R.P. Pluralism in the mass media: Can management participation help?. J Bus Ethics 3, 335–341 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00381758
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