The Research Of Marxism Press Notion And The Anti-mpnopoly Law Protection Of Media Plurality

In recent years, there is a global trend on merging media enterprises. The mergeof media seems to be a pure economic problem, but its influence is the scope beyondjust economy. In the field of Media, the freedom of the press depends on the freecompetition of different medias, for the thoughts and information can only be spreadby the media, so the monopoly in economy means the monopoly in information,thoughts, ideas too, which will also harm the justice and independence of the press.Evaluation of Prussia’s books and newspapers to censorship recently, whichwas written by Karl Marx in1842, has expressed Marx’s press notion and analyzedthe value of media plurality. This idea still works fine today, people can get differentviews and information from different Medias, given a sufficient competition in themedia industry. In one aspect, thoughts and views can be expressed in many differentways through plural media; in the other aspect, confliction between different viewsand thoughts will do a lot of help to the disintegration of rumors, which will relievethe stress of censorship of governors. Further more, people or media will be freer toexpress their ideas under minium degree of censorship. The external plurality willhelp secure the plurality in contents, and also secure the freedom of the press, relievethe stress of censorship.How to secure the media plurality? We will need the intervention and penetrationof the anti-monopoly law. First, we should take the special aspects of media intoconsideration, including the binary attribute, media competition power, and publicfunctions of media. Then we should apply the anti-monopoly law directly to governthe merge control between Medias, and use the anti-monopoly concept to thelegislation in media industry. Only in this way can we secure the plurality in media,and achieve the goal of the plurality in news, ideas and thoughts.