Publication details
Objektivní a vyvážené informace ve vysílání – racionální požadavek, či iluze?
| Title in English | Objective and Balanced Information in Broadcasting – a Rational Requirement or an Illusion? |
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Pravnik |
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| Web | Open access časopisu |
| Keywords | Objectivity; Balance; Radio Broadcasting; Television Broadcasting; News reporting; Journalism; Ethics; Public Interest; State supervision; Broadcasting Council; New Media |
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| Description | The article provides a critical analysis of the requirements of objective and balanced information in broadcasting, which are contained in Act No. 231/2001 Coll., on the Operation of Radio and Television Broadcasting and on Amendments to Other Acts, as amended, and also in the previous legislation. The article attempts to explain the nature of these requirements in the current social context. It comes to the general conclusion that these requirements are intended to represent general ideas of journalistic ethics and related ethical standards, which (in the case of some programmes, especially news programmes) are actually enforced through state supervision of radio and television broadcasting. This framework seems rational, at least in terms of the congruence of the public interest towards which both journalistic ethics and state supervision of broadcasting are in principle aimed. From this perspective, the so-called new media, which may replace the “traditional” media in practice and which are generally more loosely regulated by law (and to which the comparable requirement of objectivity and balance of information does not usually apply), appear problematic. The future solution to this disparity may be both to strengthen the regulation of the new media and/or to deregulate the traditional media in some way. |