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22 Central and Eastern Europe

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Author	Urbán, Ágnes Vékey, Zoltán
Copyright Year	2020
Abstract	The Central and Eastern European (CEE) media systems have followed a curious developmental trajectory in recent years. For a long time it appeared that the political transition in the 1990s had set the countries of the region on a certain path towards Western-type development; today we know that this was not the case. Democratic transition is not a one-way street, it is possible to turn back from the previously charted course of democratic development. Despite the fact that major parts of the region have since acceded to the European Union, media freedom is clearly declining in large swathes of the CEE. We present the vulnerabilities of these media systems by focusing on three distinct issues. For one, we look at ownership concentration as a factor that threatens diversity in the media while it increases the potential for political influence over media outlets. Second, we examine how the ethos of public media independence has fared and show that it has been often violated in practice. Thirdly, declining levels of trust in the work of journalists and a low propensity on the part of consumers to pay for quality journalism constitute a major challenge for the media. These three areas highlight major structural problems and together they threaten media freedom while at the same time they also impede democratic development.
Related Links	https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/book/9783110589542/10.1515/9783110589542-022.pdf
Ending Page	416
Page Count	12
Starting Page	405
DOI	10.1515/9783110589542-022
Language	English
Publisher	Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Publisher Date	2020-05-18
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Cultural Studies Media Diversity Transition European Central Structural Democratic Cee Declining
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Chapter

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