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# Are media relations in central and eastern Europe being Berlusconised?
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/are-businessmediapolitical-relations-in-central-and-east/
- Published: 2011-05-08T18:05:26.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-22T10:49:48.000Z
- Description: The ideal of business, media and political separation is never fully achieved. But the trend in Central and Eastern Europe seems to be towards a worrying degradation. A podcast conversation with accompanying presentation. Podcast Powered By Podbean
- Author: Tony Curzon Price
- Tags: Cultural politics, #Migrated, Europe, Czech Republic, culture, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 16:12, #appended-excerpt

[News Media CEE Business Political Pressures](http://www.scribd.com/doc/54959052/News-Media-CEE-Business-Political-Pressures?ref=opendemocracy.net)

The podcast loosely accompanies the slide show below. Note that in the press freedom indices charted, a higher number is a lower level of press freedom.

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The ideal of business, media and political separation is never fully achieved. But the trend in Central and Eastern Europe seems to be towards a worrying degradation. A podcast conversation with accompanying presentation. 

  
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