Media Policy-Making

Media policy is a collection of principles and norms codified for leading the behaviors of media organizations. This collection of policies has also limited practical applications, but, in fact, it is a wide and fundamental practice.These policies, in public opinion, originate from communications, political ideologies, the country's economic, social conditions and the values underlying them. They try to connect values with real needs and media forethought.However, it should be noted that without proper knowledge of the process of general policy making and its different stages in the government, we cannot talk about media policy making. Without doubt media policy making is not as old as general policy making. That's why studying general policy making help us a lot in media policy making. In the present article, first, general policy making and then media policy making is addressed.