POL369Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Permanent Press, Astroturfing
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Political roles of journalists patterson: compares evolution of media in us & germany, and leads to internal/external. Te(cid:374)sio(cid:374) (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) politi(cid:272)al (cid:272)o(cid:374)t(cid:396)ol o(cid:448)e(cid:396) i(cid:374)fo(cid:396)(cid:373)atio(cid:374) (cid:271)(cid:455) go(cid:448)(cid:859)ts/politi(cid:272)al elites and media independents: ho(cid:449) i(cid:374)depe(cid:374)de(cid:374)t a(cid:396)e jou(cid:396)(cid:374)alists (cid:449)he(cid:374) the(cid:455)(cid:859)(cid:396)e deali(cid:374)g (cid:449)ith events that revolve around what governments are trying to do. 2 constraints on ability of news organizations to generate news/information: time. Not a lot of money to cover all the stories. Need to make choices about who and what to cover, process by which information is filtered to the public by the media gatekeeping. How are gatekeeping choices made: anybody who has power gets into the news over others. Political elites are considered more newsworthy than normal people because they have an impact on things like policy making. Journalists have to run after the politically powerful, and the politically weak have to run after journalists. Relationship between reporters/political elites can be thought of by symbiotic relationship (dependant on one another)
