TY - BOOK AU - Bogusława Dobek-Ostrowska PY - 2019 CY - Berlin, Germany PB - Peter Lang Verlag SN - 2197-1625 SN - 9783631779507 TI - Polish Media System in a Comparative Perspective T2 - Media in Politics, Politics in Media DO - 10.3726/b15173 UR - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1068717 N2 - A media system does not exist in a vacuum. It develops and grows within social, political and economic systems. They interact with and influence one another, as well as stimulate each other’s development. The main subject of this work is the dynamically evolving Polish media system, which is under the influence of institutions and external stakeholders. Thanks to this, it is easier to understand that the "crossroads" is not only a problem of the Polish media system, but a global one. For this reason, a comparative perspective is employed. Three chapters help to provide an answer to research questions dedicated to political parallelism and journalistic professionalization. The analysis would be limited and unrepresentative if the book enclosed it with one country's border, omitting the broad global, European and Centro-European context. KW - journalistic culture, politicization of media, political parallelism, political partisanship, systemic parallelism, entrenched coverage, structural bias, democratization, de-professionalization, external pluralism, internal pluralism, political logic, media logic LA - English ER -