THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDIA SCENE IN CENTRAL EUROPE

The conference dedicated to the development of media scene in the Central Europe took place at the chateau of Neuwaldegg in Vienna from12 ­­­to14 October. The speakers were the Senator MUDr Alena Venhodova, Dr Gerhard H. Bauer Director of the Austrian Society for European Politics, Piotr Kaznowski from the Polish magazine Christianitas, Sabine Radl from the Austrian economic chamber, director of the Conservative Institute of M.R. Stefanik Peter Zajac, Jiri Rehak from the College of Finance and Administration and Matyáš Zrno from Civic Institute. Professor Bauer represented significantly pro European position - he referred to the populism of journalists who do not understand European Union and tend to blame the Union for all problems. Matyáš Zrno argued that rather the institutional and decision making structure of EU not being very transparent is to blame for the shortcomings in communicating the information about EU. He also criticized the quality of journalism since the journalists are not always as professional.