Ownership Patterns of Palestinian Media and Its Influence on Media Policy

Abstract

The media has become one of the important industries in developed countries due to the huge capital invested in the diverse and numerous fields of media, and according to experts, the media is considered the third largest industry in the world after the manufacture of weapons and chemicals, and this industry has played a role in shaping the economy, politics, religion and society's culture at the present time. . The media is considered an investment in knowledge, in a world that witnesses an information revolution every day in various fields, where different media have witnessed tangible changes in their ownership patterns, management, organizational structures, sources of financing and production techniques in light of these rapid changes, and these changes were reflected in media institutions, which made adjustments. Fundamental to its media, administrative and economic policy, and as a result of the developments brought about by the technological revolution, the forms of ownership and methods of media management diversified, as it brought about a clear change in the network of social relations and the prevailing pattern of control, and contributed to the creation of the decentralized style of management and the trend towards integrative management in which the lines of ownership, management and responsibility go. Vertically and horizontally at the same time and in more than one direction. The issue of the relationship between the ownership pattern in the Western media system and the media policy of the media is one of the issues raised in the agenda of Western media research. Ralf Thrift (1977) is considered one of the first Western media researchers to research this issue, and it was preceded by references to it by some researchers, as a reaction to the dramatic shift in media ownership there since the beginning of the sixties of the twentieth century, but in-depth studies of this The case has been delayed for some time until the phenomenon is completed and crystallized.