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LA PRESSE, LA DÉMOCRATIE, L’OPINION
PRESS, DEMOCRACY, OPINION

Author(s): Horia Lazăr
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences
Published by: Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai
Keywords: printing press; power of press; control democracy; opinion; free press; advertising; Internet.

Summary/Abstract: Press, Democracy, Opinion. The paper deals with the problems of mass-media and press in particular as “power” or “counter-power” and focuses on the role played by intellectuals in forming opinions. Describing the functioning of free press and that of electronic press the author underlines the pertinence of journalism as vehicle of opinion in the generalized world of excessive information.

  • Issue Year: 56/2011
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 153-170
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: French