El régimen jurídico de los medios de comunicación en alemania

Abstract

The guarantee of pluralism and the formation of a free public opinion take their maximum expression in the German model of legal regulation of the media. After the dramatic experience of the Second World War, Germany assumed as an essential element of its democratic structure the guarantee freedom of the media, in order to avoid manipulation by public authorities and to protect the formation of a Free public opinion, shows of the existing social, economic and political pluralism in the new German society. The model of media regulation created for this purpose, based on a dual system of broadcasting, with the requirement of institutions with an organization and a democratic functioning and a system of «mixed» financing, as well as an essential intervention of the German Federal Constitutional Court in this process, acting as a guarantor of pluralism, make Germany a reference to the independence of the media facing the Government and other public authorities.