Debate about tougher media law in Slovakia

The Slovakian government says the country's press is not objective, and that it criticises the government too much. Journalists fear that a kind of censorship will be introduced through a new media law. Martin Masek finds the government's charges not totally unjustified, and points to the low level of Slovakian tabloid journalism: "The behavior of boulevard media, but also of the boulevard sections in serious papers, come close to pure stupidity. So-called infotainment turns important news into irrelevancy and capitalizes on idiocy. Important people are written out, and unimportant ones are turned into stars. This tabloid principle has conquered serious journalism and pushed it to the fringes of society. But because the current government deliberately also benefited from this kind of journalism before the elections, it cannot now expect the papers to behave like respectable intellectuals towards the government."

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