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C U LT U R E & T H E M E D I A
TOPIC
RAPID CHANGE IN THE MEDIA
Freedom of the press and the media is guar-
entities that has essentially remained un-
anteed at a very high level in Germany, and is
changed since the foundation of the Federal
protected by the constitution. Article 5 of the
Republic of Germany in 1949. As of 2015, the
Basic Law states: “Every person shall have the
monthly license fee has been 17.50 euros.
right freely to express and disseminate his
Since the 1980s, there has been a whole raft of
opinions in speech, writing and pictures, and
private radio and TV broadcasters in the mar-
to inform himself without hindrance from
ket, and in 2014 each household was able to
generally accessible source