Institutionalizing_The_Politically_Independent_Media_Systems

Institutionalizing The Politically Independent Media Systems INSTITUTIONALIZING THE POLITICALLY INDEPENDENT MEDIA SYSTEMS IN in Eastern Europe 1. Introduction The present research is an attempt to work out a model for comparing the institutional independence of media in Eastern Europe in the context of their national political systems. The attempt at an international comparative analysis from an Eastern - in this case, Bulgarian - point of view is not an easy task. In modern Western societies, the stage of democratic development is tested and assessed by the degree of publicity's detachment and autonomy from all institution. And by the extent of this autonomy - initially from politics, and subsequently from the economy (at this stage some additional problematics might ensue - a judgment can be passed on democracy in general (1). On the intermediary level (2) publicity not only emerges as a go-between for politics and society (working in both directions), but also plays an independent role - with its own dynamics, with border areas, with its effect on other spheres (3). There is a general agreement that at the stage of the industrial society at least, the mass media is part of the publicity system, and this is exactly the part that is most essential media, freedom, freedoms, diversity, between, new, constitutions, opinion, constitutional, while, political, internal, formal, european, content, constitution, bulgaria, speech, socialist, against, actors, through, say, rights, individual, human, external, europe, east, communication, structural, one, legal, laws, institutional