RTV Theory and Practice - Special Issue

which carried out integration at federation level. We cannot сошраге these "central” svstems with the centralist svstems which were built up immediatelv after the war when a certain degrees of centralism in the management of society and therefore in communications was objectivelv necessarv. It is well known that some communications media tried later to maintain the position of central communications media but this in fact concealed tendencies towards bureaucratic centralism. The channels of inter-republic communication were then under the influence of the ideologv of unitarism which concealed itself behind a false facade of proletarian internationalism The republic svstems, however, at one time came under the influence of nationalist deviations and brought nationalist conflict situations into the channels of inter-republic communication. The structure of the Vugoslav communications svstem was decentralized bv the setting up of autonomous republic svstems. Such a structure is the result of the principle of self-management socialism, because the existence of republics and republic communications svstems does not in itself mean decentralization ... A comparative analvsis of individual svstems in the world wou!d show that the Vugoslav svstem has in principle and consistentlv solved this verv complicated and comple.v problem Everv svstem of communications is easilv subjected to various forms of centralization. In the sphere of the mass media - we can sav - the iron law of the hierarchv of information is particularlv effective. This law brings about the concentration of information at the top. This is whv all svstems in the world attempt to introduce a certain decentralization. This means that communications sv'stems should be so reconstructed that thev achieve a redistribution of information; the course of information should be oriented to the public, to the base, where the modern man’s "hunger for information” reigns The network of communications trends in a single svstem is built into a pvramidal structure. There is usuallv a comple.\ sv'stem of horizontal and vertical trends; at