 | Party Colonisation of the Media in Central and Eastern Europe Subjects: Journalism -- Europe Eastern; Journalism -- Europe Central; Freedom of the press -- Europe Eastern; Freedom of the press -- Europe Central; Communication in politics -- Europe Eastern; Communication in politics -- Europe Central; Political parties -; This book compares media and political systems in East-Central as well as in Western Europe in order to identify the reasons possibly responsible for the extensive and intensive party control over the media. This phenomenon is widely experienced in many of the former communist countries since the political transformation. The author argues that differences in media freedom and in the politicization of the news media are rooted in differences in party structures between old and new democracies, and, notably, the fact that young parties in the new members of the European Union are short of resources, which makes them more likely to take control of and to exploit media resources. Bajomi-Lázár Péter : Péter Bajomi-Lázár is Head of the Institute of Social Sciences at the Budapest Business School. He worked between 2009 and 2013 as a Senior Research Fellow on Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, a European Research Council project based at Oxford University. |
