Zbigniew Oniszczuk: The Formation of the Media Policy (Medienpolitik) of the Goverment of the Federal Republic of Germany in the years 1949-1989

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The main purpose of the present work is to trce the evolution of the media policy of the Government of the Federal Republic of Germany from the moment that state came into being to the beginning of the process of reunification. In the author's opinion, this evolution consisted in a passage from the obvious etatisme and centralism characteristic of Konrad Adenauer's administration to the policy of the 1980s which followed the principles of federalism and decentralization in the course of programming and implementing the state's media policy.