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Média, politika, pártok
Media, Politics, Parties

Author(s): László Kéri
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: MTA Politikai Tudományi Intézete

Summary/Abstract: The current study is an attempt to explain the nature of the main controversies of the relationship between the mediaworld and the Hungarian politics. After the beginning-years of the transformation both subsystem had been survived remarkeble and deep structural changes, but this development was not too well-balanced. Partly, because the field of the Hungarian media hade made enormously strong attempts to keep its newly regained independency as long as they could. Partly because the new Hungarian political elite was keen to learn the latest mediapatterns as the most effective-considered policy-making methods. These both-side misunderstandings could have been caused some suprising conflictuosus situations year by year. Finally, the implementation of the commertial televisions after 1997 has made a clear -cut situation , either in media-politics, or in the politization of the media. These kind of rather uncomparable and quick changes have been shaped the original conflicts and patterns, however the latest tendencies in the Hungarian media-policy show a new battle-field, which would have drawn towards absolutely another challenges -for both side... The main question from the point of view of the political elite, whether are they prove to be able to learn the lessons of the last fifteen years as the continuous role-setting, or to adapt the latest to the latest challenges formed of the last some years. One can consider this paper as a first attempt to examine the basic political roles shaped by the last decade changes, how to be able, far more better able to suitable for the requirements of the next elections in 2006.Somewhere, in Campaingland, far from the world of the Common-sense, very far from it...

  • Issue Year: 2005
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 81-104
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Hungarian