Summary
Contents
'This comprehensive, easily accessible book will be a helpful companion to students and researchers alike... [a] superb guide to "The Media in Europe”.' - Journal of European Affairs Completely rewritten, the Third Edition of this successful guide to European media systems has also been expanded to include Central and Eastern Europe as well as Western Europe. Covering 23 countries, the volume highlights and explains key issues of debate and current tendencies in media policy and provides basic statistics relating to each case study.The chapters are written by an expert from the country concerned. Most of these are members of the Euromedia Research Group, a research collective that has been active for more than 20 years and has produced a series of assessments of media policy developments in Europe.
Germany
Germany
National Profile
Describing the national characteristics of Germany is far from easy. Modern Germany was founded as a latecomer in Europe in 1871 as the Deutsches Reich. But the territories that make up today's Germany look back at a long history of developing a common identity and a common culture, based on historical events that were experienced together and of course the German language. But it is not just the national language of the more than 80 million inhabitants of Germany, but a language which is also spoken in Austria and parts of Switzerland. Altogether this constitutes a common language space – and therefore a media market – of about 100 million people.
The old Germany followed an expansionist policy, initiated disastrous wars in Europe ...