Reporting the Post-communist Revolution
Auteur : Snyder Robert
The events of 1989 were the material of great reporting. They also revealed the power of journalism. Long before people in Central and Eastern Europe liberated themselves, they discovered democratic freedom, putting to print their own ideas and chronicling events of the day. Indeed, long before they had democracies in law, they had imagined them on paper.In the Solidarity network that produced books and leaflets and news bulletins, in the essays of Václav Havel, in the samizdat publishing house in Budapest that used a portable printing machine, Eastern Europeans demonstrated the organic link between journalism and self-government. They showed how journalism nurtures the imagination, dialogue, and honesty that are basic to democratic life.If history had ended in 1989, there would be cause for easy optimism. The changes that swept Central and Eastern Europe passed with relatively little bloodshed. But agonies of the former Yugoslavia, convulsions of the former Soviet Union, and enduring battles with censors and would-be censors bedevil emerging democracies. Not only does much remain for journalists to cover in Central and Eastern Europe, in some places there the fate of journalism is still an open question. For all these reasons, Reporting the Fall of European Communism explores, not only the events of 1989, but new stories that have emerged in Central and Eastern Europe over the past decade. This volume will be of interest to media professionals, academics and others with an interest in the power of journalism.
Date de parution : 06-2018
15.2x22.9 cm
Date de parution : 03-2001
Ouvrage de 172 p.
15.2x22.9 cm
Thème de Reporting the Post-communist Revolution :
Mots-clés :
Young Men; gazeta; MDF; wyborcza; Mikhail Gorbachev; party; Postcommunist Central; hungarian; Gazeta Wyborcza; democratic; FRG; forum; Tv Nova; czechoslovak; Television Stations; dissidents; West Germany; media; Civil Society; studies; Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung; Robert Giles; Tv Station; Robert W; Snyder; Neues Deutschland; Lisa DeLisle; East Germans; Irena Grudzińska Gross; Nowy Dziennik; John Tusa; West German; Jan Urban; Czechoslovak Dissidents; Ann Tusa; GDR Past; Nadezhda Azhgikhina; SED Regime; Anna Husarska; GDR Regime; Karol Jakubowicz; NATO’s Decision; Joel Rubin; NATO’s Leader; Jeremy Druker; Commercial Tv Station; Adam Michnik; 1980s Dissidents; Private Tv Station; John Maxwell Hamilton; Stephan Russ-Mohl; Jay Rosen; Reshma Prakash; Slavenka Drakulić; György Kerényi; Mark M; Nelson; Ruth Ellen Gruber; Jerome Aumente; Dražen Pantić; Andrew Tyndall; Owen V; Johnson