Diversity and public service broadcasting in the context of regulation: the portuguese case

Abstract

Diversity and pluralism are concepts and practices that must be particularly protected in the current media and digital ecosystem; otherwise, with their dilution, the own democratic experience may be liquefied, thus opening the way to populism and totalitarianism. These threats are now looking at the weaknesses of post-war European democratic experience, in a Europe that has been profoundly weakened by the context of perverse globalization, lack of cohesion and of mediation of solidarities that currently characterize the European Union. This text tries to analyse the current situation regarding the regulation of media content in the Portuguese case, seeking to particularly systematize how the issue of diversity has been monitored in Portugal with regard to Public Service Broadcasting.