March 2, 2017 •
Ethics and Quality, Latest stories, Media and Politics •
by Halyna Budivska
“Ukrainian radicals beat up children for speaking Russian” (FAKE); “University student expelled for asking President Poroshenko an ‘uncomfortable question’” (FAKE); “Ukrainian Armed Forces recruited mercenaries from...
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October 28, 2016 •
Ethics and Quality, Latest stories, Media and Politics •
by Robert G. Picard
There are critical vulnerabilities in contemporary journalism practice that allow populist parties and their supporters to actively manipulate the press and subvert democratic processes. Journalists need to be aware and respond to these....
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October 30, 2015 •
Latest stories, Media and Politics •
by Jan Zielonka
The ruling party in Hungary, Fidesz, has persistently tried to transform public-service television into its propaganda tool, but seen rather perverse results. The more TV programmes played to the Fidesz tune, the less people watched it....
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March 1, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Spiegel Online’s pre-election coverage last week was not wrong, yet somehow it missed the decisive point in its pull quote: “A clown, a billionaire, an apparatchik and a professor who understands nothing of politics: One of these men...
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November 6, 2012 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Will Rupert Murdoch withdraw from the United Kingdom and instead aggrandize his media empire in the U.S.? Ken Doctor, an American media economist and columnist for the Nieman Lab at Harvard University has speculated about such a move. In...
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June 15, 2012 •
Press Freedom •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
There’s been a recent revival of trials attempting to integrate Turkey into the EU, yet advocates of such an action should perhaps take a closer look. Unfortunately, Western media rarely report on the harassment doled out to members of...
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August 4, 2011 •
Media Economics •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
It was like watching the movie from the day before yesterday. Suddenly, all the three of them were back: Leo Kirch, Silvio Berlusconi and Rupert Murdoch, the tycoons who influentially roughed up the media business in Europe during the 80s...
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October 20, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Marcello Foa
Big Brother is about to step his way into media. For once, it isn’t Berlusconi. In fact, according to English papers, the concentration of TV channels belonging to Berlusconi is marginal compared to what is about to occur in Great...
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June 1, 2010 •
Ethics and Quality •
by Natascha Fioretti
Ethical Space, Vol 7 Nos. 2/3, 2010 Natascha Fioretti examines Italy’s extraordinary ‘Berlusconismo’ phenomenon – and the response of the international media to it. When elements of popular culture meet elements of political...
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