Media News - Monday, September 29, 2008
European Parliament supports alternative and community media
The European Parliament, meeting in Brussels last week for its plenary
session, adopted a report by Karin Resetarits (Die Liberalen, Austria)
which calls on the European Union to encourage alternative media in
Europe in order to promote pluralism and cultural diversity. Stemming
from the old family of 'free radio' and other pirate broadcasting,
alternative media today is often a community media, addressing a certain
category of the population for example the Muslim population, senior
citizens or young people. They can be distinguished from commercial
media by the fact that they are not profit-making but purely social,
linked with their community by the service they provide. Mrs Resetarits
would like to see this recognised by the European Commission and the
Member States. The support measures recommended by Mrs Resetarits are
mostly of a technical nature, legal (attribution of frequencies) and
financial (possible financing by the EU). (ALDE via Community Media Forum Europe and Media Network Weblog)
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