ABSTRACT
This chapter describes briefly each in turn and lists the countries which adopt public service model, the state control model, the market model, and the mixed model. It describes about recent innovations in the mass media, to the transformations which these have brought about in the West, and to the extraordinarily difficult decisions which confront the new democracies of Central and Eastern Europe. The chapter also concentrates on the system operating in the Soviet empire before it collapsed. The public service model treats political news and information as a matter of public concern. The state control model applies to varying degree to most European dictatorships Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union and to a lesser extent to the authoritarian regimes in Spain, Portugal and Greece. The existence of profitable and expansionist commercial business in Luxembourg, for example, forced Belgium to follow suit. Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria, and Switzerland have been similarly affected by events across their borders.
