the periodization

The topicality of the research is, first and foremost, caused by the active process of transition from industrial to information-oriented society, which can be observed throughout the world and which is impossible without independent mass media. Those countries with a longer history of democracy do not have mass media fully owned by the state, except for those that broadcast and print only statistical data, because the underlying principle of the European democracy is that the government is not entitled to carry on propaganda for its own people.