Media Freedom: The Contradictions of Communications in the Age of Modernity
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Most people believe that the freedom of the media is an essential prerequisite of a modern democracy. Yet there is also a growing conviction that the media are turning democratic politics into a branch of show business. Contemporary politics have been trivialised into a series of sound-bites and photo opportunities, and the ‘classical’ role of the media as a forum for rational debate between rival ideas has been traded for media controlled by collective institutions and management hierarchi...






















