2022
Media in the Western Balkan : who controls the past controls the future
STOJAROVÁ, VěraZákladní údaje
Originální název
Media in the Western Balkan : who controls the past controls the future
Autoři
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.
The chapter was originally published in a special issue of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.