Just as Russia's economic growth has obviated talk of democracy, the media's financial successes leave no place for ethical debate. While market imperatives often do the censors' work for them, counter-examples exist, reports Maria Eismont. [ more ]
"Arche" looks warily at the Belarusian thaw; "Magyar Lettre" gets to the heart of the central European city; "Kulturos barai" criticizes the culture of groceries; "Fronesis" takes counsel on the "unhappy marriage" between feminism and the Left; "A Prior" looks at monuments that won't melt into air; "Revista Crítica" sees the political potential of bio-art; "Critique & Humanism" analyzes neophilia and neophobia; "Dialogi" lashes out at the Slovenian press; and "Glänta" is missing links.
is an editor of Eurozine.
The migrant youth, the RAF terrorist, and the German feuilletons
The German media's reaction to a recent spate of migrant youth violence bore striking similarities to last year's controversy over the release of Red Army Faction prisoners. In both cases, an ostensibly apolitical identification with the "victim" was nothing of the sort. [more]
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