When the Berlin Wall fell almost 30 years ago, it was, above all, because the privately owned media outlets had pushed for political change in Central and Eastern Europe.
The charge was led by both the newly established newspapers, which were run by the opposition pushing for democracy, as well as traditional media outlets that realised the time for the communist regimes was at an end.
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