From ‘Chaos’ to ‘Order

The Transition of the Media in Macedonia from 1989 to 2014

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8113003
AutoresKaterina Spasovska (0000-0002-4614-9842, 1Communication Department, Western Carolina University, USA, [email protected], autor de correspondencia), Iso Rusi (2journalist, retired, [email protected])
Año2015
Volumen39
Número1
Páginas35-61
Fecha de publicación2015-04-08
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSoutheastern Europe (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0094-4467 • E-ISSN: 1876-3332
EditorialBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/18763332-03901003
OpenAlexW1977817645
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas2

The chapter examines the development of the media in Macedonia from 1989 to 2014 and their relationship with the political system, parties and government. It also looks at the legal environment that sets the rules or lack of such of engagement with political and economic forces. The authors conclude that Macedonian media cannot be set outside the regressive political process. At the beginning of the 1990s it seemed that the media were part of the institutional structure leading democratization but generally, the media and the journalists in the last 22 years of independent Macedonia have played a negative role similar to that played by the political parties and politicians. The media and the journalists speeded up the transition of the society from closed to open, but at the same time helped create a hybrid of bogus democracy (intermediate) in which they are among its victims

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