The Impact of Media Concentration on Professional ... - OSCE
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6. C<strong>on</strong>clusi<strong>on</strong>s• Globalisati<strong>on</strong> has not spared the European <str<strong>on</strong>g>Media</str<strong>on</strong>g> sector.• <str<strong>on</strong>g>Media</str<strong>on</strong>g> c<strong>on</strong>centrati<strong>on</strong>, as well as cross sector ownership andcross-border ownership are part <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> today’s ec<strong>on</strong>omic realities.Because <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> European integrati<strong>on</strong> and global reach <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g>a small number <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> media c<strong>on</strong>cerns, these phenomena arebound to accelerate and will, c<strong>on</strong>sequently, become everharder to c<strong>on</strong>trol.• <str<strong>on</strong>g>Media</str<strong>on</strong>g> law will never be ahead <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> technological developmentsand their ec<strong>on</strong>omic c<strong>on</strong>sequences.• <str<strong>on</strong>g>The</str<strong>on</strong>g>re is no general pattern for how c<strong>on</strong>centrati<strong>on</strong>, crossownership and cross-border ownership occurs. Each markethas its own specific developments.• <str<strong>on</strong>g>The</str<strong>on</strong>g>re is a clear distincti<strong>on</strong> between market c<strong>on</strong>diti<strong>on</strong>s inWestern European countries and the emerging democraciesin Central and Eastern Europe: While Western Europeansocieties since World War II had ample time to develop andstrengthen free and independent media, CEE countries,after having experienced three generati<strong>on</strong>s <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g> communistdictatorship are suffering from the dramatic absence <str<strong>on</strong>g>of</str<strong>on</strong>g>experienced and well-trained journalistic pers<strong>on</strong>nel, as wellas the unavoidable structural difficulties resulting fromsocio-political transiti<strong>on</strong> processes.• Regulatory, as well as political and ownership interventi<strong>on</strong>smeant to curb journalistic freedoms and independence,as can be observed in Italy, set bad examples forCONCLUSIONS 187