Institutionalizing The Politically Independent Media Systems

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less politics", rather "more publicity - more politics". Media autonomy does not mean that politics needs to be mediated for, rather, that media should be an adequate mediator of politics.

The theory of democracy discusses various argumentation lines. On the one hand, the accent falls on the generalizing function of the journalist message, which, regardless of the audience, overcomes the partial, indented model of partisan communication (13). The framework of this interpretation advocates for state-free media, and for a "balancing" that should intentionally use, support and enhance the "generalizing ability" of media.

On the other hand, in the "public-agenda" approach (14), or while analyzing the "news-bias" (15), the differentiation of audiences through media inside political structures, rather than outside them, becomes topical. This leads to the already classical postulate for the necessity of media pluralism, that enables as many as possible social, political and cultural models and interests to exist and be represented next to each o...