... real issues for most developing countries espousing a policy of media use for national development. One of Africa's leading critics and theorists of the mass media, Cehn Chimutengwende (1992) notes: 'The mass media have long been recognized in developing countries as essential auxiliary means of modern economic construction, social and cultural development. They are important means of social control ... literacy, academic programs are also produced for schools and the Educational Broadcasting Services (EBS) was introduced in 1965 solely for this purpose. On gaining independence, Zam...

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... communications used to be, in itself, an autonomous solely owned corporation. However, this changed by the 1980's, the majority of all major American media- magazines, televisions, radios, books, newspapers, and movies- were controlled by fifty giant corporations. Today, only twenty-three conglomerate corporations own the media. Elite theorists have articulated that giant business enterprises and politicians ... were successful because their production costs were significantly lower than newspapers that were not ad-based. As a result, ad-free newspapers took a plunge in the media competi...

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