From the report: "The global revolution in communications technologies and services is
fracturing the historic relationship between the media and the state. That
relationship, born in the early print era, was first framed by the territorial
authority of sovereigns and later found new legitimacy in the rise of popular
sovereignty, thus becoming a definitive feature of the modern liberal
democratic state. For centuries, states have sought to impose their territorial
boundaries on the flow of information and ideas. This however has required ever
increasing inventiveness and cost as new communications technologies have both
empowered and threatened the security, authority and legitimacy of the state.
In the internet era, the state’s capacity to
control its public information sphere is now being tested to exhaustion." Read more
