Cross-media Ownership: An Intersection of Competition Laws and Media Market Forces

The article aims to explore the theme of Cross-media ownership, in order to understand its impact on media pluralism within the Indian market. This would include analyzing the detrimental impact of such ownership model on freedom of speech and expression, which intends to resolve the dispute between media pluralism as a facet of Article 19(1)(a) of the Indian against freedom of trade under Article 19(1)(g), and their reasonable restrictions, respectively. This would lead the readers to understand the constitutional possibility and scope of regulating the Cross-media ownership in India, which is already under scrutiny in foreign jurisdictions. Along with this, the article will also discover the justification of antitrust laws being ignorant of harm caused by media conglomeration leading to depressed variability in media pluralism.