Labovic, Miodrag (2011) MEDIA CORRUPTION AND DEMOCRACY IN THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA. In: INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE SECURITY IN THE POST-CONFLICT (WESTERN) BALKANS: TRANSITION AND CHALLENGES FACED BY THE REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA.
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Abstract
The media corruption is new theoretical term that has never been
researched from socio-criminological aspect so far. This type of corruption has
direct impact to the non-objective informing of the citizens trough most sensitive
ways of manipulation and thus it represents strongest strike on the democracy of
Republic of Macedonia and its most important segment – democratic, fair and free
elections. The media corruption generally is accomplished on three levels or
subtypes. The first level consists of political corruption, by making influence from
the centres of political power over the editor politics of certain media. Second, the
political-economic corruption made by the Government over certain medias, by
transferring amounts in millions of Euros to the television media through marketing
agencies, completely legal from legal aspect (lege artis), but highly suspicious from
socio-criminological aspect wining the Government public tenders for advertising
campaigns. Third, through economic-political corruption, firstly accomplished in
the same medias by conducting criminal offences, tax frauds and money laundering,
and latter when the Government conducts inspection and discovers irregularities,
instead to submit this cases to the legal authorities, it abuses the position and the
authorities and blackmails certain medias to change the concept of their editors’
politics.
The damage caused by this sensitive crime of media corruption has
huge negative consequences, not only from material, but also from an even more
nonmaterial aspect for a society as fragile as the Macedonian society. The most
negative consequence is the fact that in Republic of Macedonia, in these
circumstances, there are not and cannot be any preconditions for fair and truly free,
democratic elections. The price paid by the citizens is lack of democratic and
economic development of the country that leads to an unstable political and
security condition, etc. In these conditions, the PR becomes damaging substitution
for the realistic and developing political offer. The Republic of Macedonia becomes
prisoner of the black-white world of the two largest political parties around which
in the past 20 years of transition the political satellites, that tend but realistically
cannot become a real third option, circulate. Besides free media, the citizens should
have freedom to select of programs, equally represented not only by the political
competitors but also even more important, the citizens should know more about the
entire relevant offer of conceptual ideas, and long term systematic - strategic
approaches for solving the most sensitive priorities of highest state interest. In
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order to accomplish that, instead of a corrupted journalism that is based on
sensationally trivial topics, we need creative, investigative journalism based on
objective professional standards. In order to accomplish this, qualitative radical
reforms are necessary within the most crucial spheres in the society.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
|---|---|
| Subjects: | Scientific Fields (Frascati) > Social Sciences > Law Scientific Fields (Frascati) > Social Sciences > Political science Scientific Fields (Frascati) > Social Sciences > Other social sciences |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Security |
| Depositing User: | Prof. d-r Miodrag Labovic |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Sep 2023 13:25 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Sep 2023 13:25 |
| URI: | https://eprints.uklo.edu.mk/id/eprint/8814 |
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