Mass Media in modern Russia

It is necessary to consider information needs of the modern person as need for messages of the certain maintenance and the form which are necessary for people for orientation in the surrounding reality, specifications of a the world-outlook, for a choice of a line of conduct and the decision of problem situations, for achievement of internal balance and coordination with the social environment. Without satisfaction of these needs purposeful reasonable activity of the person is impossible. Therefore a degree of development of information needs and their satisfactions are closely connected to social activity of the person. As the data of sociological researches show, information needs in groups of an audience with the maximum degree of social activity are most intensively advanced and realized: members of elective bodies, public organizations, non-staff authors of mass-media, etc. It once again confirms the importance of inclusion of information needs in the number of criteria of efficiency of mass media their role in satisfaction of the population.

Introduction ……………………………………………………………………………… 4

1. Stages of development of the Russian mass media …………………………………. 6
1.1. Russian mass media as the tool of democracy ………………………………... 6
1.2. The Russian law on mass-media of 1991 ……………………………….…….. 7
1.3. Disputes around of the new law and returning of censorship ……………….… 9
1.4. Strengthening the rights of mass-media and their restriction ……………….… 11
2. Mass-media in Russia after 2000 ……………………………………………………... 12
2.1. Role of the state in becoming of mass media ……………………………….…..12
2.2. Latent forms of the state intervention …………………………………………..13
2.3. Monitoring by authority of regional editions ………………………………….. 15
2.4. Necessity of changes for sphere of mass media …………………………….…. 16

Conclusion ……………………………………………………………………………….... 18

Literature ………………………………………………………