On structuring of media information on sensitive issues

Abstract

Structuring media information on sensitive issues is the optimizing process of information content to integrate the essential tension between two contradictory demands. In this case, it is a demand for openness, in other words, information of public interest. On the other side is the demand for secrecy with regard to the sensitivity of information with possible links to the specific parts of the national security concept. The content of the term public interest is determined by what is widely accepted as essential in terms of the long-term well-being of society and its members. The topic is approached within the framework of semantic information theory in such a way that the information published in the public media is analyzed in accordance with theoretical guidelines in a concrete environment, and the analysis isolates the elements of information that correspond to the given goal and those that do not.