Trade and Media Issues with Guest Joseph Campbell

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Chapter 8:

Trade in cultural and media products is growing as are disputes related to them. Canada has proposed a special set of rules for such products that has evoked a broad span of reaction. Canada and the US are involved in a long standing dispute over cultural products – Sports Illustrated! The guest is Joseph Campbell for the School of Communications at American University. He discusses freedom of the press issues and trade and has a special focus on freedom of the press in Africa. The case is the dispute over media issues between the United States and Canada. The dispute involves country music and the rival US and Canadian views of authenticity and trade barriers.

 

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