Abstract
The author argues that the commercialisation of broadcasting will in all likelihood have a lasting effect on society's value system. International experience demonstrates that in the process, a commercial broadcasting system contributes to broadcasting being used principally as an entertainment medium. The tried-and-true concept-communication is of special significance for the formation of political opinion-thereby recedes into the background. The author concludes that the loss democratic function of mass communication would be extremely regrettable. (Editor’s abstract.)
Recommended Citation (in OSCOLA)
Wolfgang Hoffman-Riem,
"Freedom of communications and new technological development in the Federal Republic of Germany"
(1990)
2(1)
National Law School Journal
Available at:
https://repository.nls.ac.in/nlsj/vol2/iss1/13