Съдържание:
  • 3.1 A weapon of power 27; 4.1 A hard-won quality 65; 1 Preface 11; 1.1 The catalyst for this research 11; 1.2 Acknowledgements 12; 2 Introduction 14; 2.1 Utopia versus reality
  • high ideals versus hard facts 14; 2.2 A starting point: Roger Blum's pronouncement onSwiss journalism 16; 2.3 The framework of the thesis 17; 2.4 Design of the thesis 20; 2.5 The standpoint of the author 25; 3 The Meanings of Censorship 27; 3.2 Comprehending the term "censorship" 28; 3.3 The origin and development of authoritarian censorship 33; 3.4 Censorship in today's democratic constitutional state 38.
  • 3.5 Switzerland is no exception 504 The Origins and Evolution of Media Freedomin Switzerland 65; 4.2 The emergence into an intellectual modern agethrough the "Helvetia" 66; 4.3 Freedom of the press as a new quality 67; 4.4 Searching for the new state 68; 4.5 The development of the freedom of the press in thenew federal state 71; 4.6 Freedom of the press
  • a valuable quality 72; 4.7 The Federal Constitution of 1999 76; 5 Media and Democracy Today 79; 5.1 No state within a state 79; 5.2 The role of the media in a democracy 80.
  • 5.3 The importance of the media in the communicationof information 845.4 Have the media taken over the function of the politicalparties? 86; 5.5 The media-friendly politician 88; 5.6 PR methods of marketing personalities 89; 5.7 Media friendliness and election successes 91; 5.8 Consensus democracy and the diminishing consensus 93; 5.9 The media and the abuse of power 93; 6 International Obligations and the Freedomof the Media in Switzerland 98; 6.1 Dissent and conformity 98; 6.2 The UNO Agreement 100; 6.3 The International Covenant on Civiland Political Rights 101.
  • 6.4 The International Convention onRacial Discrimination 1026.5 The European Convention on Human Rights 103; 6.6 The Swiss Federal Supreme Court restrainedby the ECHR 104; 7 National Standards 109; 7.1 The Swiss Federal Constitution 109; 7.2 The Swiss Penal Code 115; 7.3 The Swiss Civil Code 118; 7.4 The Federal Law on Unfair Competition 119; 7.5 The Law on Radio and Television (LRTV) 120; 7.6 The Swiss Press Council 121; 7.7 The Declaration of theDuties and Rights of the Journalist 125; 8 The Secretiveness of the Military 127; 8.1 Under special protection 127.
  • 8.2 The media in the sights of military justice 1288.3 The army's deaf ears 131; 8.4 Unchanged practices 134; 8.5 Criticism without results 136; 8.6 Military justice as a disciplinary institution 137; 9 Media Organisations and Journalists' Associations 139; 9.1 An unprotected area 139; 9.2 Impressum and Comedia 140; 9.3 The professional register ("BR") 141; 9.4 Privileges 142; 9.5 The press card 143; 9.6 Further services 144; 9.7 A difficult position vis-a€-vis employers 145; 9.8 Everyday examples 146; 9.9 At the publishers' mercy 149; 9.10 The campaign for a new Collective Agreement 150.