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Article: A media blizzard overwhelms Eastern Europe.(The Eastern European Media: A Survey of the Press in the Former Soviet Union)
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- Nieman Reports
- Article date:
- June 22, 1996
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The "white noise" of media overload has flooded central-eastern and southeastern Europe. Newsstands in most countries are bursting with all manner of periodicals, ranging from glossy, internationally recognized titles such as Elle, MacWorld, and Playboy to special-interest publications like Poland's popular weekly Pani Domu (Lady of the House) to the Czech Republic's fortnightly NieReport, the magazine of the Independent Erotic Initiative. A few serious intellectually and politically oriented journals are even appearing, as the novelty of glossy photos and Western-style entertainment begins to wear thin.
To North Americans, the number of newspapers available in ...