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Media in the Western Balkan : who controls the past controls the future

STOJAROVÁ, Věra

Základní údaje

Originální název

Media in the Western Balkan : who controls the past controls the future

Vydání

London, Illiberal Politics in Southeast Europe : How Ruling Elites Undermine Democracy, od s. 156-176, 21 s. The Southeast Europe and Black Sea Series. 2022

Nakladatel

Routledge

Další údaje

Jazyk

angličtina

Typ výsledku

Kapitola resp. kapitoly v odborné knize

Obor

50601 Political science

Stát vydavatele

Velká Británie a Severní Irsko

Utajení

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Forma vydání

elektronická verze "online"

Organizační jednotka

Fakulta sociálních studií

ISBN

978-1-032-07689-8

Klíčová slova anglicky

Media freedom; Western Balkans; media financing; captured state; illiberal politics

Štítky

Příznaky

Mezinárodní význam, Recenzováno
Změněno: 22. 11. 2021 13:47, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Anotace

V originále

The contribution assesses the role of the media in respect to democratization and EU accession in the countries of the Western Balkans (WB) and the development of press freedom over the long run. The author closely analyses the legislative framework and its implementation in practice and focuses in particular on the economic and political pressure on the media in the region. The article offers three arguments to explain the bad shape of media freedom in the Balkans: structural factors (state advertisements as the main source of income, economic tycoons close to incumbents as media owners), proximate or external factors (the deteriorating level of media freedom in some EU countries and the whole WB region, with an accent on stability rather than democracy) and political-societal dynamics (defamation and libel as means to punish journalists, verbal and physical assaults on journalists). The media in the WB region do not serve as the watchdog of democracy but are instead used as a means to reinforce illiberal regimes.
The chapter was originally published in a special issue of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.