Young Markets, Old Problems
Young Markets, Old Problems

Summary/Abstract: It is clear the media landscape profits from a diversity of topics, views and especially owners; it is equally clear that it suffers from analogue. According to media theory, in a free and deregulated market, media outlets tend to concentrate. The media story of Western Europe is also a story of elevated concentration. But what happens to young incompletely developed markets, which in addition are flooded by foreign capital? What happens to the South-East European (SEE) countries? In most of these countries, young democracies are confronted by old problems.

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