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                                                       The Three Models

                                future, in the sense that most media systems are moving in important
                                ways in its direction. It is also, however, a system that has developed
                                within very specific social and political contexts, with tensions and con-
                                tradictions like any other system we have examined, and the field of
                                media studies would be best off abandoning the notion that it is the
                                natural measure of all media systems.

























































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