According to J.Curran, "adequate media system should enable the full range of political and economic interests to be represented in the public domain and find expression in popular fiction."(Curran, 1991) In our societies, media have grown against the absolutist states and their policies to subordinate their subjects. The call for Freedom of the press was seen as an act of emancipation in the process of enlightenment. It is in this way that liberals have formulated their theory and the role of the media as a watchdog. For them, "it is important to establish a critical distance between the media and the government system through private media ownership."(Curran, 1991) And this independence goes through a free market of media.
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