REPRESENTATIVE ON FREEDOM OF THE MEDIA Freedom and Responsibility YEARBOOK 2002/2003 Vienna 2003 The cover is a drawing entitled Des Schreibers Hand (The Writer’s Hand) by the German author and Nobel prize laureate (1999) Günter Grass. He has kindly let our Office use this as a label for publications of the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. The drawing was created in the context of Grass’s novel Das Treffen in Telgte, dealing with literary authors at the time of the Thirty Years War. © 2003 Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Office of the Representative on Freedom of the Media Kärntner Ring 5-7, Top 14, 2. DG, A-1010 Vienna Telephone: +43-1 512 21 450 Telefax: +43-1 512 21 459 E-mail:
[email protected] www.osce.org/fom The authors retain rights on the essay texts. Design: WerkstattKrystianBieniek, Vienna Printed: Die Drucker, Vienna Freedom and Responsibility What We Have Done, Why We Do It – Texts, Reports, Essays, NGOs Contents Jaap de Hoop Scheffer Preface 9 Freimut Duve Introduction 13 I. Internet Felipe Rodriquez and Karin Spaink Rights and Regulations 23 Hans J. Kleinsteuber The Digital Age 31 II. Views and Commentaries Mass Media in Central Asia Central Asian Journalists Speak about Media Freedom and Corruption 41 Jacqueline Godany The War in Iraq and its Impact on Journalists and Journalism 45 Freimut Duve Freedom and Responsibility Media in Multilingual Societies 63 Milo Dor Conference Address: Media in Multilingual Societies 71 Johannes von Dohnanyi The Impact of Media Concentration on Professional Journalism 75 Freimut Duve The Spiegel Affair 79 Achim Koch Mobile Culture Container 83 Freimut Duve In Defence of our Future? 89 Besnik, age 17, Mitrovica Growing Old Young 93 Sevji, age 16, Bitola As If Nothing Had Ever Happened 97 III.