Richard Paterson – författare

Humans are created to be social beings, living in communities that support each other. Somehow, we seem to have lost our focus on creating healthy communities. This book has been written to inspire readers to pay attention to the advantages of consciously building healthy communities through a return to relational interactions, which have been replaced to a large degree with transactions. Another trend the book explores is the cost of our obsession with efficiency, often to the detriment of effectiveness. And the fact that relational interactions have been the casualty of this shift in emphasis far too often.

The author was motivated to put pen to paper because we have lost community as a fundamental platform for building thriving lives, and regressed to a "me" rather than "we" mentality. His dream is for us all to live in thriving communities that enable us to become the best version of ourselves.

Focusing on the growing power of transnational media corporations in an increasingly globalized environment for distribution of television content, and on the effects of mergers and acquisitions involving local and independent television production companies, this book examines how current and recent re-structurings in ownership across the television industry reflect changing business models, how they affect creativity and diversity of television output, and to what extent they call for new approaches to regulation and policy. Based on a major study of the UK production sector as a case study, it offers a unique analysis of wider transformations in ownership affecting the television production industry worldwide and of their economic, socio-cultural and policy implications.