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Rights of Access to the Media (Hardcover)
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As broadcasting systems transform - both in societies marking a
post- communist transition and in the rest of Europe and the United
States - opportunities for "access" are frequently put forward and
debated. Just as frequently, little is done to analyze what is
meant by access and how the concept fits into a theoretical
framework. Access issues proliferate, not only for the new statutes
concerning broadcasting licenses, but for cable television regimens
and for the information infrastructures of the future. Access
becomes the hope of social groups, religious organizations,
politicians, redemptive in its impact on the democratic process.
Given the range of uses, given the consequences imputed to access,
in the broadcasting field, more attention to its various meanings
is long overdue. This volume of essays is a partial answer. The
book has its origins in a conference held in June 1993 at the
Institute for Constitutional and Legislative Policy at the Central
European University in Budapest. The purpose of the conference was
to gather scholars with a commitment to exploring the theoretical
and actual implications of various access regimes as they have been
or were then being practised or proposed. The time was a vital one
as debates continued throughout the region on the shape of proposed
broadcasting legislation. The conference offered an opportunity to
review the political context in which access was being considered
at a raw and early moment in the transitions to democracy. Hungary
was still deadlocked in its "media wars", a confrontation between
the major political parties over the course of society in which the
conduct and control of broadcasting was seen as a defining issue.
The Czech Republic had just split from its Slovak counterpart and
the implications for the role of broadcasting in the building of a
nation were self-evident. Problems of hate speech and lustration -
a negative form of access: access by society to information about
the personal past of public figures - compounded the difficulty of
policy-making. Access issues yielded concerns about privatization
since the ownership of instruments of the press are a key factor in
access and that implicated the choice of licensees, the conditions
under which they should operate, whether and to what extent foreign
investment should be allowed. The inevitable, underlying problem
concerns the role of the state in establishing rules, maintaining a
hand in establishing the narratives of continuity and, indeed, in
letting go and fostering the processes of change. The responses are
organized in four sections: theories of media access; access to
media in Europe and the United States; judicial review of access to
the media; and the media and the political arena.
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