Media market in Latvia.
Media by its aims is telling the truth, filtered through subjectivism and objectivism, where objectivism should be the main thing, but experience is showing that it’s hardly impossible to make articles, reports, and broadcasts without any sense of subjectivity. And lately we can see through which ideas are supporting different medias, and which are against them.
In the past in Latvia, and through all post Soviet Union countries, propaganda was known like forced ideology in which people had to live and build their own opinions according to it. Everyone knew that they were living in propaganda, and it was ok, because there was no other way how to live. And now we have a great opportunity to analyze the effects and defects and more things, which propaganda is doing. Just because democracy brings the freedom of speech and a lot of examples of propaganda, which can be analyzed.
Every year, the Reporters Without Borders (RWB) organization establishes a ranking of countries in terms of their freedom of the press, which is based on responses to surveys sent to journalists that are members of partner organizations of the RWB, as well related specialists such as researchers, jurists and human rights activists. The survey asks questions about direct attacks on journalists and the media as well as other indirect sources of pressure against the free press, such as pressure on journalists by non- governmental groups. So in this ranking countries Latvia is in the list of most free countries, after Finland, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Ireland, Slovakia and Switzerland in year 2004. Now it is in the same place.
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