The Constitutional Law Approach to Publicity and Media in the Light of Social Science Results
The Constitutional Law Approach to Publicity and Media in the Light of Social Science Results

Summary/Abstract: Regulatory decisions related to the media, whether of the constitutional court or of the authorities and normal courts of law, include attitudes connected to the function, the effects and the technical and economical environment of the media. Some of these are explicitly reflected in the law or regulation as a result of the decision, whilst others affect decision-making indirectly. However, it is evident that decisions on the responsibility, scope and limits of the media are not independent of the decision-maker's attitude, knowledge and ideas about the media There are few other areas of law which so obviously necessitate the interdisciplinary approach and consideration of knowledge related to media studies, economics, technology, sociology and the political sciences. The experiences of legislative decision-making, however, confirm the convictions that the preparation of decisions tends not to rely on legal knowledge, that media regulation is fundamentally regarded as a legal issue and that non-legal experience and knowledge play a merely superficial and simplified role in influencing decision-making.

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