01 September 2006
The Media Empire in Slovenia: Contemporary Masters of Information
Author:
Sandra
B
Hrvatin
Lenart
J
Kucic
Iztok
Jurancic
Publisher:
Peace Institute - Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Metelkova 6
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
Tel: +386 1 234 77 20
Fax: +386 1 234 7722
http://www.mirovni-institut.si
This essay presents the basic outline of the situation in the media field in Slovenia and draws attention to certain trends that reduce journalists’ (media) autonomy.
The story about the Slovenian media is a story about the continual influence on the media of media owners and politics (with the government being one of the major media owners). It has a history that can be traced back to the early 1990s when Slovenia chose a specific form of media privatization. The present government’s involvement in the removals and appointments of supervisory and management boards members, editors-in-chief and editors should be considered within the wider context of shifts that occurred during the period of transition in Slovenia. Instead of leading to less influence of politics on the media, media privatization in Slovenia resulted in politics having an even greater influence than in the past.
