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The best media policy is no media policy.’ This unambiguous dictum is associated with the late Rudolf Augstein, journalist, founder and longstanding editor-in-chief of Germany’s most important news magazine, Der Spiegel. He came from and worked in a large European state, and he was a furious defender of press freedom. Would he have modified this statement when he was con-fronted with media realities in a small state, eventually being part of a larger language area with one large country dominating the area?
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Trappel, J. (2014). Small States and European Media Policy. In: Donders, K., Pauwels, C., Loisen, J. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of European Media Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137032195_14
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