ABSTRACT
The Czech media landscape, and in particular the professional and public sectors, is characterized by the limited and ineffective media accountability instruments (MAIs) typical of transforming democracies like the countries of the former Soviet bloc. Even though sections of the media have established their own codes of ethics and ethical boards, the major accountability instruments are regulatory bodies closely connected to the state. Commercial and tabloid media devote limited space to media critics. Online media do not offer much space to media criticism or media accountability issues.
