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Media systems

Media policies differ in different countries and therefore it is important to understand in which contexts these policies and differences occur. In this regard, different media systems have important relevance. As Siebert, Peterson, and Schramm wrote in Four Theories of the Press an important question here is: Why is the press as it is? In some countries media serve different purposes and contain different forms than in other. Policy is based upon this and formed around this. Hallin and Mancini introduced for example three different media systems (or media system models as they named it). These are the Liberal Model (prevails across the Britain, Ireland, and North America) and is "charactarized by a relative dominance of market mechanisms and of commercial media", the Democratic Corporatist Model (prevails across northern continental Europe) and is charactarized by "a historical coexistence of commercial media and media tied to organized social and political groups,and by a relatively active but legally limited role of the state", and the Polarized Pluralist Model (which prevails across the Mediterranean countries of southern Europe) and is charactarized by "integration of the media into party politics, weaker historical development of commercial media, and a strong role of the state".