Freedom and independence of television – the road to a fair media Cover Image

Wolność i niezależność telewizji – droga do sprawiedliwego przekazu
Freedom and independence of television – the road to a fair media

Author(s): Andrzej Baczyński
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Media studies, Sociology of Religion
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
Keywords: justice; media; television; freedom; independence; John Paul II; responsibility; value; culture;

Summary/Abstract: Freedom and independence are prerequisites for fair coverage in the media. Only in such an atmosphere, the media, and especially television can perform social tasks assigned to them. Freedom and independence are also the space that allows respect for fundamental values , including Christian values in the media. Respect of Christian values in the media is primarily an attempt to defend man against all that undermines man’s dignity, all that degrades man to the role of an object, all that makes man an object of various manipulations. Culture free from such threats can be created and participated in only in an atmosphere of freedom. For every desire to participate in the truth and the good becomes impossible in the conditions of coercion and enslavement.

  • Issue Year: 4/2012
  • Issue No: 2 (7)
  • Page Range: 9-21
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish