Watchdog, Lapdog, or Attack Dog? Public Service Media and the Law and Justice Government in Poland

Połońska, Eva

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-02710-0_11

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“…Poland is the most prominent case where the PiS ( Prawo i Sprawiedliwość , Party of Law and Justice) majority parliament passed the Small Media Act in December 2015, just 2 months after the election that brought the right-wing populist party back into government. The Act, followed half a year later by the establishment of the National Media Council in charge of appointing the supervisory boards of the public service media, yielded the government direct control of public radio and television (Klimkiewicz, 2019: 56–57; Połońska, 2019: 232–234). Like Hungary, Poland has fallen back on the World Press Freedom Index over the years, ranking 62nd in 2020 (Reporters Without Borders, 2020b).…”

Section: Assaults On Public Service Broadcastingmentioning

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The kiss of death. Public service media under right-wing populist attack

Holtz‐Bacha

2021

European Journal of Communication

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With the surge of populism in Europe, public service broadcasting has come under increased pressure. The established media are considered part of the corrupt elite not serving the interests of the people. The public service media, for which pluralism is at the core of their remit, are a particular thorn in the side of the populists. Therefore, they attack the financial basis of public service, which is supposed to guarantee their independence. The populist attacks on the traditional broadcasting corporations meet with the interests of neoliberal politics and of those political actors who want to evade public scrutiny and democratic control and do no longer feel committed to democratic accountability. The assaults on the public service media are thus an assault on freedom of the media and further increase the pressure on the democratic system.

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Section: Assaults On Public Service Broadcastingmentioning

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The kiss of death. Public service media under right-wing populist attack

Holtz‐Bacha

2021

European Journal of Communication

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On Western and Eastern Media Systems: Continuities and Discontinuities

Miconi,

Papathanassopoulos

2023

Springer Studies in Media and Political Communication

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This chapter aims to discuss the relevant literature related to Mancini and Hallin’s comparative media systems model, taking into account the case of the Eastern European media as well. It is tried to draw the main features of the so-called post-Socialist media markets. After a brief discussion on how media systems change across time and vary across space, the chapter explores to what extent we can add a “post-communist” cluster to the initial Hallin and Mancini’s classification. It is assumed that the post-Socialist transition has deeply changed the social and economic tissue of all ex-Eastern European countries. As the case of media in Eastern Europe reveals even in countries with a shared social political past, there is still ground for specificities to be flourished that eventually will lead to different paths of media market development. It is argued that even if we witness the triumph of certain general tendencies of what is described as the consolidation of media market globalization, this process could not be understood in its full potentials, without taking into consideration how the political, cultural, and economic “legacy” of each European member state.

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The Rise of the Illiberal Public Sphere

Štětka,

Mihelj

2024

The Illiberal Public Sphere

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This chapter sets out the theoretical framework of the book, centred on the key concept of the illiberal public sphere. We first outline our understanding of illiberalism and explain what makes it distinct from related phenomena such as populism and democratic backsliding. Following from that, we introduce the concept of the illiberal public sphere, and elaborate on the historical relationship between liberalism and the public sphere, as well as on the existing alternatives to the classic ‘Habermasian’ model, indicating that a public sphere can exist outside of the scope of liberal democracy. The chapter then proceeds to identify three ideal-typical stages in the development of the illiberal public sphere—labelled as incipient, ascendant and hegemonic—and charts the contemporary state of the illiberal public sphere in each of the four countries that are at the forefront of our analysis.

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Watchdog, Lapdog, or Attack Dog? Public Service Media and the Law and Justice Government in Poland

Cited by 8 publications

References 3 publications

The kiss of death. Public service media under right-wing populist attack

The kiss of death. Public service media under right-wing populist attack

On Western and Eastern Media Systems: Continuities and Discontinuities

The Rise of the Illiberal Public Sphere

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