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Frozen 2: Communication Rights and the Thaw of Public Funding in Small Media Systems
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Frozen 2: Communication Rights and the Thaw of Public Funding in Small Media Systems

Manuel Puppis, Hilde Van den Bulck and Etienne Bürdel
Journal of information policy (University Park, Pa.), v 10(1), pp 388-438
01 May 2020
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https://doi.org/10.5325/jinfopoli.10.2020.0388View
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Abstract

communication rights comparison Government Law media policy media subsidies Public Policy public service media
This contribution investigates how public funding of media can be reinterpreted to fit a communication rights–based approach to media policy. To this end, it describes and evaluates current public funding in small democratic-corporatist European media systems. While public funding is no longer “frozen” in its late twentieth-century state, as funding mechanisms have undergone significant change, when held against a rights-based approach, it appears there is a need to shift the basis for funding from safeguarding the survival of media industries to safeguarding the communication rights of citizens, allowing media to become “enablers” in executing these rights.

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