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THE ROMANIAN JOURNAL OF JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION

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Manuela ȚIMBOLSCHI-PREOTEASA

Murdoch’s ‘Romanian’Faces. Media Ownership in Romania: Risks of the High Concentration

Romanian Journal of Journalism and Communication, issue 2 (35), year VI (X), 2011

section: Media economics

pages: 12-19

abstract

This article aims at exposing about the risks which might occur when the high concentration of ownership and control combines with elements such as oligarchic tendencies, informal networks, the most often invisible, between oligarchs, politicians and/or former nomenklatura, lack of effective implementation of regulations in the competition field, and, last, but not least, the size of the market and its recent political and economic developments. In the vision of scholars, views adopted by the European Commission in its recent ‘Media Pluralism Monitor’ (2009), the ‘structural pluralism’ (pluralism of ownership and control) plays a role in shaping the whole concept of pluralism, along with other identified forms of pluralism: media types and genres, political viewpoints, cultural expression and local and regional interests. Written form a risk perspective, the article aims at analyzing some of the factors which might be relevant, in relation to structural pluralism, based on case studies which are generously offered by the recent developments in the country: the political affiliation of media owners, the judicial investigations some of them have been subject of, the increasing dominance of certain players, the openness of the market versus the state monopoly in certain fields (e.g. the nationwide terrestrial TV licences). The emergence of different factors and the different ways how they interact might transform an apparently ‘beneficent’ consolidation of the media (from the liberal perspective) into a danger for democracy.

keywords

Media concentration, pluralism, oligarchs, moguls

abstract (second language):

Cet article vise à exposer les risques qui pourraient souvenir lors de la forte concentration de la propriété et le contrôle des média se combine avec d’autres éléments tels que les tendances oligarchique, des réseaux informels, et le plus souvent invisibles, entre oligarques, politiciens et/ou ancienne nomenclature, l’absence d’implémentation effective de la réglementation au domaine de la concurrence, et, pas dernièrement, les dimensions du marché, et les récents développements politiques et économiques de la société dans son ensemble.Rédigé sous forme d’une perspective de risque, l’article vise à analyser certain facteurs qui pourraient être pertinents, en rapport avec le pluralisme structurel, basé sur des études de cas qui sont généreusement offertes par les développements récents dans le pays: l’affiliation politique des propriétaires de médias, les enquêtes judiciaires sur certains d’entre eux, la domination croissante de certains acteurs, l’ouverture du marché contre le monopole d’Etat dans certains domaines (par exemple au secteur des licences nationales de télévision terrestre). L’émergence de différents facteurs et les diverses façons dont ils interagissent pourraient transformer une apparence “bienfaisante” de la consolidation des médias (du point de vue libéral) dans un danger pour la démocratie.

keywords (second language):

La concentration des médias, pluralisme, les oligarques

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