From Big Lie to Small Lies: State Mass Media Dominance in Post-Communist Romania
From Big Lie to Small Lies: State Mass Media Dominance in Post-Communist Romania
Author(s): Henry Frank CareySubject(s): Media studies, Political history, Government/Political systems, Politics and communication, Crowd Psychology: Mass phenomena and political interactions, Post-Communist Transformation
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Romania; postcommunist transformation; mass media; television in Eastern Europe; democratization; political image; mass media communication in democracy;
Summary/Abstract: Television everywhere misrepresents reality, reduces political participation, promotes apathy, and helps legitimate existing power structures, even with aggressive reporters. In entirely different settings, television in Eastern Europe's democratizations have the added danger of state dominance. No regime there yet has a pluralist mass media. One might sense in Eastern Europe the specter of Deutsch's state-dominated television, on which political images are projected on Putnam's decaying democratic infrastructure and Wilson's atomized, morally dependent viewers to produce Sartori's incompetent polity led by Havel's televised, nationalist robots. [...]
Journal: East European Politics and Societies
- Issue Year: 10/1996
- Issue No: 01
- Page Range: 16-45
- Page Count: 30
- Language: English
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