The events of 1989 were the raw material of great reporting. They
revealed the power of journalism. Long before people in Central and
Eastern Europe liberated themselves, they discovered democratic
freedom, putting to print their own ideas and chronicling events of
the day. Indeed, long before they had democracies in law, they had
imagined them on paper.
In the Solidarity network that produced books and leaflets and
news bulletins, in the essays of Vaclav Havel, in the samizdat
publishing house in Budapest that used a portable printing machine,
Eastern Europeans demonstrated the organic link between journalism
and self-government. They showed how journalism nurtures the
imagination, dialogue, and honesty that are basic to democratic
life.
If history had ended in 1989, there would be cause for easy
optimism. The changes that swept Central and Eastern Europe passed
with relatively little bloodshed. But agonies of the former
Yugoslavia, convulsions of the former Soviet Union, and enduring
battles with censors and would-be censors bedevil emerging
democracies. Not only does much remain for journalists to cover in
Central and Eastern Europe, in some places there the fate of
journalism is still an open question. For all these reasons,
Reporting the Fall of European Communism explores, not only the
events of 1989, but new stories that have emerged in Central and
Eastern Europe over the past decade. This volume will be of
interest to media professionals, academics and others with an
interest in the power of journalism.
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