Regime Change of Public Space in Hungarian-language Romanian Press of 1990

Gábor GYŐRFFY
Regime Change of Public Space in Hungarian-language Romanian Press of 1990
Institution: 
Faculty of Political, Administrative, and Communication Sciences, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj
Author's email: 
gyorffygabor@yahoo.com
Keywords: 
regime change
public space
political communication
discourse
freedom of speech
Abstract: 

The communist regime in Romania created a centralized media, characterized by the interlocking of censorship and propaganda, as well as an extensive economic control. After the regime change in Romania, free publicity displaced guided socialist publicity with no transition period. However, neither the new actors of political life, nor the media possessed the basic knowledge, rules, and norms for operating a democratic press. The assertion is based on the analysis of the issues of the Hungarian daily paper Romániai Magyar Szó (Hungarian Word of Romania) in the first half of 1990.

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