Promowanie różnorodności i pluralizmu w mediach we Francji: działania regulatora na coraz bardziej skoncentrowanym rynku medialnym
Promoting diversity and pluralism in the media in France: The regulator’s actions in an increasingly concentrated media market

Summary/Abstract: Free from political pressure, economically independent and diverse media are essential to the functioning of a modern democracy. They should provide citizens with objective information, help maintain social cohesion and serve as a forum for public debate that reflects all political and world-view trends present in a given society. For these reasons, in most democratic countries, despite the diversity of existing concepts of nationality, the media sector is characterized by a large amount of public intervention. The state entrusts certain tasks to the media regulator to achieve the desired goals. The following article, based on the existing literature on the subject, public declarations and published reports of the regulator, as well as the authors’ own research carried out on the subject, presents the main methods used by the French media regulator to promote pluralism and cultural diversity as well as the degree of their effectiveness. However, it turns out that the French public policy in this field, which has been actively implemented for many years, has not brought satisfactory results so far, because the audio-visual image of many groups of French society still does not match their real social importance, and the progressive concentration on the media market damages their pluralism.

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