Media dictatorship

The term media dictatorship (sometimes also: mediocrature ) is a controversial political catchphrase for the conscious manipulative influence of mass media on political decision-making processes and decisions.

Most of the time the term is used in connection with discussions about media concentration.

Examples of the use of the term:

• The 1968 movement called for "expropriated Springer" to counter a feared media dictatorship
• In 1992, Helmut Thoma (then managing director of RTL ) accused his competitor Leo Kirch of “They want to establish a media dictatorship”.
• Vladimir Putin's policy of controlled democracy through control of the media is criticized as a media dictatorship
• When Silvio Berlusconi , the owner of the largest private television channels in Italy, was elected as head of the Italian government, the catchphrase was used by the media dictatorship.
• The publisher of the Kronenzeitung Hans Dichand is accused of being able to decisively influence political decisions and election results due to the enormous market position of the newspaper and its offensive political support.

See also

• Media democracy
• Media manipulation

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1. ↑ Star 36/92
2. ↑ Rita Glavitza, University of Kassel 2005 online version
3. ^ Spiegel, April 5, 2006 online version
4. ↑ Kathrin Ackermann-Pojtinger, Berlusconi's Mediocracy and Italian Television History, Romance Studies 3, 2016, online .
5. ↑ Press, September 5, 2008 online version

Web links

• Eckart Spoo: media dictatorship vs. Democracy (2004) ( Memento from February 11, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• Dirk Hoeren author for politics and economics at "Hart aber fair" (Internet TV) In the clip "Die 'Bild' makes pressure" the politics of the Bild newspaper are described.