The advertising market has a profound effect on media integrity in Albania, due to factors including legal vacuum, small size of the market and dependence of media on economic and political actor
The top ten advertisers are rarely exposed in mainstream media in terms of investigative journalism or in any context they would consider as “negative”
A short glance at media practices shows that the idea of self-regulation is either a naïve vision of media systems, or a way to discursively obfuscate real pow