The aim of this paper is to describe and assess the political parallelism pertinent to the
post-communist Lithuanian mass media; and to show potential risk (for democracy, civil society) of
the absence of the political parallelism. Referring to the concepts, communicative democracy is defined
as free, open and democratic communication organized around three equally legitimate public sphere
actors – politicians, journalists and public opinion, and populism is understood as good, entertaining
and effective communication with people, eroding basic functions of the political parties (institution-
alization of ideological confl icts) and politicians (representation). The paper provides insights about
the dangers to quality of democracy which the free mass media might present when it gets utterly away
from political parallelism. Special attention is placed on the tendencies of media personnel to be active
in the political life. Th e (universal) contemporary mass society phenomenon, coupled with the (post-
communist regional) ill-structured of the post-communist political field and (local) specific traditions
of the Lithuanian political culture and public sphere, gave birth to the peculiar absence of the mass-
media and politics parallelism in the country. In the conditions of the relative absence of foreign
ownership of the mass-media outlets in Lithuania, the local media barons are able to produce and
impose their own public-agenda, which hampers development of the civic-minded public sphere and
definition of the social and professional responsibilities of the journalism as a profession and as a so-
cial category. The Lithuanian mass-media and government relations evolve along the lines of the
zero-sum game: they seek to control each other, and at the same time try to avoid being controlled by
the other, while any other pattern of inter-relations does not appear as viable and appropriate.
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