Novinarstvo u funkciji stvaranja političkog jedinstva
Journalism in the Function of Achievement of Political Unity

Summary/Abstract: Referring to Hobbes and later Hegel, the author notes that a ruler's first task is to transform the state of necessity into the stale of wisdom and freedom. This can be achieved by a revolutionary change of the entire life, basing collective life on scientific insights, or by developing a law-based state of a parliamentary type rooted in public opinion. Obstacles to free journalism are posed by totalitarian political systems of the kind that expressed themselves in this country in the project of dictatorship of the proletariat. The task of journalism was seen as interpreting and implementing the guidelines issued by the all-powerful Party leadership. Journalism can be a factor of political unity, but for it to be this, certain elementary preconditions characteristic of a modem parliamentary state must be satisfied, including the rule of law as the foundation of a law-based state, recognition of the basic human rights of individuals in society, and division of powers in the state.

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