The Private and the Public in the Media: Regulation and Implementation in Slovenia
Author: Jernej Rovšek
Publisher: Peace Institute – Institute for Contemporary Social and Political Studies, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Metelkova 6
1000 Ljubljana
Slovenia
Tel: +386 1 234 77 20
Fax: +386 1 234 7722
http://www.mirovni-institut.si
Synopsis
This book is divided into three main parts;
- In the first part, I speak about one important human right long neglected in Slovenia: the right to obtain information. For more than a decade, this right amounted to no more than a declaration in the 1991 Constitution of the Republic of Slovenia without any possibility of being exercised in practice, since a law that would regulate the content and the method of exercising this right did not exist.
- The second part is dedicated to the right to privacy and the mechanisms of its protection when it is invaded, unjustifiably or disproportionately, by the media. Only recently has the protection of this right received more emphasis in situations in which it had to be weighed against the right to freedom of expression.
- In the third part, I look into the mechanisms of self-regulation and self-control in the media. This chapter is also an attempt to resuscitate the initiative to establish a press council in Slovenia.
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