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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The Dutch media monopoly kills journalism in the Netherlands: internet doesn’t helpPolitics has marginalized the people with the crucial support of the media.
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Published in: 50.50Spain: national television, government tool?The Spanish government's determination to manipulate public television and treat viewers as idiots is backfiring....
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Published in: HomeRomanian media in crisisRomanian media is in a sad state, with newspapers losing stamina by the day and television channels shamelessly...
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Published in: HomePolitics, punditry, and the foreign gaze: the crisis in Portugal and the mediaPorous boundaries between politicians and pundits, rigid austerity and a zealous attempt to please foreign observers...
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Published in: HomeThe sorry state of the Irish mediaThe story of free speech in Ireland today has moved on considerably from the past, but the political class believes...
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Published in: HomeMedia freedom in Turkey: just how bad is it?Turkey has more journalists in prison than any other country, and ranks low on indices of press freedom. Just how...
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Published in: HomeCorruption, fear and silence: the state of Greek media todayIndependent journalism is up against a system that knows that it is in mortal danger from disclosure and will do...
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Published in: HomeIntimate fusion: media and political power in Silvio Berlusconi's ItalyThe common view that Berlusconi's omnipresence in Italy's political life was facilitated by his control of the media...
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Published in: HomeMaking sense of Italy’s Second Republic: when politics become a soap operaOver the last decades, the Italian media has become a scene for the soap opera of Italian politics. Will Beppe...
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Published in: HomeDiscouraging developments in the German news media marketThe German print media is going through a rough phase, with many newspapers closing and journalists laid off as a...
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Published in: Can Europe Make It?There and back again? Media freedom and autonomy in Central and Eastern EuropeCollusion between the press and politicians is not confined to western Europe. Central and Eastern European...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe BBC, creativity and the digital age: Brian Eno, Kamila Shamsie, Bill Thompson and Tony Ageh discuss
Novelist Kamila Shamsie and musician Brian Eno discuss the Corporation and creativity with the two men leading the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKAfter Murdoch
A potentially awesome shift in the UK’s power structure is taking place if the role and influence of Murdoch’s...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Murdochs are not fit and proper people
It's a "truly dreadful situation" declares the UK's Prime Minister on learning of the latest revelation of the...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKNews of the Financial Sector: reporting on the City or to it?Why did the news media give so little warning of the 2007-8 financial crash? Because financial journalism has been...
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Published in: HomeHungary: a draconian media law
New restrictions on Hungarian media threaten to undermine freedom of expression, the lifeblood of democracy. Fears...
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Published in: oDRAzerbaijan: rights situation no cause for celebration
It has been ten years since Azerbaijan became a member of the Council of Europe, but no one is in the mood for a...
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Published in: HomeHungary's new media law shows contempt for democracy, the separation of powers and core European ideals
The Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor Orban, is no believer in democracy. “The republic,” he said in 2006, “is merely...
