Media Ownership Concentration in Romania: A Threat to Pluralism and Media Freedom?
Debates about concentration of media ownership and possible means of regulating it have been for some time now on the European agenda. Throughout the 1990s, discussions centered on The Green Paper on media concentration and pluralism, and on the two draft proposals for a Media Pluralism and then a Media Ownership Directive. At international level as well, academics, policy-makers, media researchers and various other stakeholders engaged and took sides in the debate concerning the impact of media concentration on democracy, conducting active deliberations such as the ones on the online forum hosted by OpenDemocracy.com (OpenDemocracy ND). (weiterlesen…)