{"id":6460,"date":"2024-10-25T16:20:48","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T14:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/?post_type=hbi-publications&#038;p=6460"},"modified":"2025-09-01T17:54:44","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:54:44","slug":"state-media-treaties-under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"hbi-publications","link":"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-publications\/state-media-treaties-under-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"State Media Treaties Under Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.otto-schmidt.de\/afp-zeitschrift-fur-das-gesamte-medienrecht-probeabo-09492100\">AfP 6\/2024<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/employee\/tobias-mast\/\">Tobias Mast<\/a> discusses state media treaties in a climate of polarized and fundamentally opposing politics.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4141 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AfP-Tobias-Mast-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of the journal AfP\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AfP-Tobias-Mast-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AfP-Tobias-Mast-768x494.jpg 768w, https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AfP-Tobias-Mast.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The German broadcasting and media system is a highly complex political and legal construct. It only functions in terms of stability and change as long as all stakeholders are willing and able to participate in it. As a policy area that often requires nationwide solutions but remains under state jurisdiction, constant coordination is necessary, which creates potential for disruption by incapable or malicious actors. Previously criticized as cumbersome, the system is now proving highly vulnerable under changed government conditions and the rise of right-wing populist forces.<\/p>\n<p>Mast, Tobias (2024): Medienstaatsvertr\u00e4ge unter Bedingungen polarisierter und fundamentaloppositioneller Politik [State Media Treaties Under Conditions of Polarized and Fundamentally Oppositional Politics]. In: AfP 55 (6\/2024).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2579,"template":"","tags":[398],"class_list":["post-6460","hbi-publications","type-hbi-publications","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-miscellaneous"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.2 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>State Media Treaties Under Pressure - Leibniz Institut f\u00fcr Medienforschung | Leibniz Institute for Media Research<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leibniz-hbi.de\/en\/hbi-publications\/state-media-treaties-under-pressure\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"State Media Treaties Under Pressure\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In an article published in the journal AfP 6\/2024, Tobias Mast discusses state media treaties in a climate of polarized and fundamentally opposing politics. 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