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Političko komuniciranje u pluralističkom društvu
Political Communication in a Pluralist Society

Author(s): France Vreg
Subject(s): Politics, Communication studies, Politics and communication
Published by: Fakultet političkih znanosti u Zagrebu
Keywords: Political Communication; Pluralist Society;

Summary/Abstract: The Stalinist layer of a state-party elite shaped itself into a real "state-bureaucratic" caste and transformed communication into agitprop activity. Thus society loses its self-reflexivity as an analytical, critical, and innovational flow stimulating the morphogenesis of the system. Research proves that when the principle of a pluralism of interests has been accepted, as is the case in our society, the working people offer a critical evaluation of the communication channels on the republican, regional, and organisational levels. They maintain that these do not study economic and political problems with sufficient objectivity, that they advocate only the attitudes of the political leadership of a particular republic and that they do not name those that are responsible for negative social phenomena. Therefore, the system of information and communication must develop into an open, democratic, and critical mechanism, in which no covering up of information, reporting from the position of political bodies only, or distortioning of facts can be acceptable.

  • Issue Year: XXIV/1987
  • Issue No: 02
  • Page Range: 59-74
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Croatian