SUBVENŢIONAREA PUBLICĂ A MASS-MEDIEI CA INVESTIŢIE ÎN PLURALISMUL MEDIATIC. PRACTICI EUROPENE

Abstract

State subsidies for the press is a normal practice in many countries. The governments decided to adopt this measure in order to protect the pluralism and the media diversity, when many publications, especially the print press, were threatened to disappear. The present article focuses on the best European practices of state subsidies for the mass-media. At the end of the article,we present the evolution of the topic in the Republic of Moldova, and propose to implement the European practices in order to develop the media pluralism and the democracy.