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AND THE LOCAL MEDIA (1990-2002): AN ATTEMPT AT SYNTHESIS

The article attempts a synthesis of the history of the local press as a socio-political back-

ground for Polish territorial self-govemment. The thesis within the article is: that the local

media in the 3^rd Rcpublic has become an integral part of the system of govemment in the

provinces. It is at the same time a barometer for local conditions for the development of de-

mocracy and the free market. The work is an ovcrview incorporating the existing body of re-

search as well as basing itself on sources unpublished to datę (including those from the ar-

chives ofthe Foundation for the Development of Local Democracy in Warsaw). There domi-

nates in the research methodology description and a comparative approach including that via

the comparative contrast of data from three local govemment terms of office. The results of

the research constitute a reliable substantiation for the thesis of the article while simulta-

neously pointing to the permanent character of the process of transfonnation within this type of the media.