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On Modern Censorship in Public Service Broadcasting
Author(s)
Radomír Silber
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DOI:10.17265/2328-2177/2018.03.002
Affiliation(s)
University of Economics (graduate), Prague, Czech Republic
ABSTRACT
The paper focuses on the manifestations,
causes, and consequences of the failure of so-called public service media,
especially in the field of news and journalism. Those media that, unlike
private media, are funded from public sources. The public
service, which citizens are obliged to pay through taxes or direct fees, is
supposed to provide quality information, to produce and to disseminate content
that satisfies the democratic, cultural, and social needs of the society, with
a task at hand to preserve media pluralism. The major obligation of public
service media is usually for them to provide objective, validated, and balanced
information for people, so they can choose freely where they stand on any given
issue. However, examples of the failures of two public service media operating
in the Central European Czech Republic, Czech Radio (ČRo), and Czech Television
(ČT), as well as the failures of the statutory control boards of these media,
show that the required high quality public service prescribed by law,
especially in the field of news and journalism and other programs, is not
always kept. Public service media may be partisan and apply elements of modern
censorship. This is a censorship that the law of the public service media does
not impose and does not allow to carry out. Such censorship, which is a result
of unilateral subordination of the influence of specific political parties,
interest groups, and opinion streams, is reflected in information manipulation,
purposeful agenda development, selection of information and information
sources, spiral of silence, in the preference of some political parties,
partisan, interest interpretation, and adaptation of reality in broadcasting.
KEYWORDS
modern censorship, objectivity, partisanship, public service media
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