Media privatization and democratization in Central-Eastern Europe

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Those in positions of power in post-Communism Central and Eastern Europe wish to deregulate and privatize their media. There is a conflict in the democratization of the media between the desire to use privatization as a way of increasing power and profit and the goal of developing the media to enhance democratic communication. The state still retains a large degree of control, which counterbalances the trend towards privatization and commercialization of mass media and leads current restrictions on media pluralization to be justified by sovereignty and 'national interest.'

Economic aspects, Eastern Europe, Privatization, Privatization (Business), Mass media, Europe, Eastern

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Journalist or witness?: Reporters and war crimes tribunals

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The Tribunal Appeals Chamber ruled during the Balkan Wars that war correspondents have a privilege to refuse to testify before the tribunal. It is argued that the Appeals Chamber holding was deficient because it omitted the safety of the correspondent, his family and his sources from the equation. The American case of Robert Young Pelton, who interviewed John Walker Lindh in Afghanistan for Cable News Network (CNN), is reviewed.

United States, Company legal issue, Cases, Confidential communications, Journalistic privilege, War correspondents, Lindh, John Walker, Pelton, Robert Young

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Communication research and the need for shifting paradigms - again

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Attempts to regulate human communication that is older than those trying to understand and theorize its human nature and its inherent laws are discussed. The most challenging issues that are related to the historical process of human emancipation that is not only a matter of theory and research but carries some practical regulatory efforts are given.

Analysis, Interpersonal communication, Alienation (Philosophy), Alienation, Alienation (Social psychology)

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