The Bulgarian press in the period 1919-1944 and the Mediterranean media model Cover Image

Българската преса в периода 1919-1944 г. и средиземноморският медиен модел
The Bulgarian press in the period 1919-1944 and the Mediterranean media model

Author(s): Ivo Indzhov
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, History, Social Sciences, Cultural history, Political Sciences, Civil Society, Communication studies, Sociology, Comparative history, History of ideas, Local History / Microhistory
Published by: Факултет по журналистика и масова комуникация, Софийски университет „Св. Кл. Охридски”
Keywords: print media; Mediterranean (polarized-pluralistic) model; Hallin and Mancini; Bulgaria; Plovdiv

Summary/Abstract: The study establishes significant similarities between the Bulgarian print media in the period 1919-1944 and leading characteristics of the Mediterranean polarized-pluralistic media model formulated by Hallin and Mancini (2004). This observation is also confirmed at the regional level, following the example of the newspaper landscape in Plovdiv. Until 1934, despite the shortcomings of post-liberation democracy, the Bulgarian political system was polarized and pluralistic. There is also a high degree of parallelism between the parties and their newspapers, resp. there are politically biased ‘independent’ newspapers. Opinion journalism has strong positions. The mass press is also developing, but it is not becoming a real corrective to the authorities. The authoritarian sub-period and the years of censorship confirm the closeness of the Bulgarian media system to the Mediterranean media model

  • Issue Year: 2022
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 112-140
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Bulgarian