Political and business elites in the countries that are the subject of this report have acquired control over a large number of public and private media, mostly through non-transparent privatizat
Divided They Fall: Public Service Broadcasting in Multiethnic States, 2008
A comparative research focusing on public service broadcasting of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Macedonia and Switzerland.
The aim was to give an overview of the legal frameworks and operational mechanisms for public broadcasting systems in these societies. The publication explores the extent to which the public service broadcasters are employing the values of the social system they are operating in. In addition, although the public service broadcasting is supposed to serve the public, this role becomes obscure in the divided societies. The question remains whether the public service broadcasters can, despite different tendencies of political elites, serve the public which includes different ethnic constituents. Finally - can PSB help to transform ethnic divisions in ethnic diversities?
Bašić-Hrvatin S., Thomson, M. and Jusić, T., (Ed.) Divided They Fall: Public Service Broadcasting in Multiethnic States, Mediacentar Sarajevo, 2008, available: here. Accessed 29 July 2013.