Mass-media între etică, influență politică şi presiunea pieței
Mass-Media between Ethics, Political Influence and the Pressure of the Market

Summary/Abstract: The present paper aims to explore the relation which might occur between the professional field of mass-media, the laws of economic games and the political influence exerted by the media. In its first part I have presented, by starting from the concept of public sphere as theorized by J. Habermas, the function which the media assumes in a democracy. After this I tried to show, by characterizing the Eastern European media, what the differences are between the model of classic liberalism and the realities from Eastern Europe. In the last part of the paper I have tried to question the hypothesis drawn by the American professor P. Gross, according to which the economical liberalization of the mass-media may lead to the professionalization of the field. I have pointed out some features which make the Romanian media highly incompatible with such a hypothesis.

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