From Interactions to the Mediatization of Politics. How the Relationships Between Journalists and Political Actors Explain Media Influences on Political Processes and the Presentation of Politics

Baugut, Philip

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2019.1598886

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“…2.As in other studies (Baugut, 2019; Pfetsch, 2001), political spokespersons advising politicians are seen as part of the political field.…”

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“…The second and third types of conflict might indicate the attempts of agents in the political field to regain control over an increasingly influential journalistic field. In a study of politician–journalists relations on the local level, Baugut (2019) found more conflict in cities with stronger media competition than in cities with a newspaper monopoly. This would suggest that conflict is even more likely on the national level due to more competitive media markets.…”

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“…In other words, the negotiation of the political contents of the media is notoriously contentious, even though interaction routines and a shared culture secure the cooperation between journalists and politicians in spite of partly conflicting interests (Pfetsch, 2001). Even though conflict in the negotiation of newsworthiness (Cook, 2005) does not always characterize the relationship, it is nontheless a ‘crucial dimension’ (Baugut, 2019, p. 4) of it that has not received sufficient scholarly attention.…”

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Why bite the hand that feeds you? Politicians’ and journalists’ perceptions of common conflicts

Maurer

Riedl

2020

Journalism

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The conflicts between politicians and journalists might prejudice the culture of democratic discourse, even though their relationship is not always conflictual. Although some studies have touched upon the topic, we know little about why these conflicts arise concretely. To fill this gap, this article first approaches such common conflicts from the perspective of Bourdieu’s field theory, which has been argued to entail expectations of conflicts because it explicates the ways in which agents can enhance their personal symbolic capital by playing in the respective neighboring field while following distinct professional doxas. Methodologically, our argument relies on the responses of political and journalistic elites (n = 862) who were surveyed in Germany, Austria, and France. The countries represent diverging media systems and journalistic cultures within the Western model that potentially influence the type of conflicts in the relationship. Based on qualitative and quantitative analyses of the 599 reasons for conflict expressed by the respondents, the article identifies two main types of conflict. One pertains to the journalistic doxa, as it involves the overruling of political norms by journalistic standards in reporting, and the other pertains to the political doxa when overruling journalistic values. We evaluate the theoretical contribution of Bourdieu’s approach to making sense of conflict in the politician–journalist relations.

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“…2.As in other studies (Baugut, 2019; Pfetsch, 2001), political spokespersons advising politicians are seen as part of the political field.…”

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Why bite the hand that feeds you? Politicians’ and journalists’ perceptions of common conflicts

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Riedl

2020

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“…Politics cannot exist without a support structure that continues to sustain the political activities and also reflect the happenings of politics. The media is a tool that tends to support politics by receiving and transmitting political information to the public (Baugut, 2019). The media is vital in informing the public about current political campaigns and acts.…”

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Impact of Packaging Politics and Branding of Political Leaders on Public’s Political Perception

Bajwa¹

2022

JDSS

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This study examines the impact of political branding and packaging through the use of mass media as a means of disseminating political information to the general public. Packaging politics and political branding can be important sources of influence on the political perception of public. For this purpose, literature related to branding and packaging techniques being used in political communication, and cultivation analysis has been reviewed. The findings of this study enable research to raise awareness by identifying various techniques of packaging and branding used in political communication by the political parties which ultimately have noticeable impact on political perception and the voting behavior. This study includes the quantitative approach of data collection employing non-probability sampling technique. The sample size of this study is 600 respondents, divided into 67% to 33% male and female respectively. This study has revealed that majority of the respondents are heavy media user in regard of politics and projection of political leaders to the highest pedestals by using branding and packaging techniques has subjugated the importance of manifestos of political parties. This study has also resulted in the findings that the voting behavior of the respondents is greatly influenced by the media presentation of political leaders and political parties. The study's cultivation analysis indicates the impact on media consumers from light to heavy viewers. The findings revealed that heavy viewers are more influenced by media content than light viewers.

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“…Current research indicates that political parallelism tends to correlate with closer relationships between journalists and their political sources (Cammarano and Medrano 2014), while competition within the media market (Baugut 2019) or intra-political competition (Van Aelst, Shehata, and van Dalen 2010) is known to increase the informal and invisible interactions between journalists and sources. While informality of the interactions and invisibility of the sources in the media content can be one of the ways to transfer and gather the information and a part of the professional journalists' (or sources') toolbox, the degree to which this is the case can differ from one context to another.…”

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Reconstructing the Informal and Invisible: Interactions Between Journalists and Political Sources in Two Countries

Malling

2021

Journalism Practice

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A significant part of the interaction between journalists and their sources in political journalism is informal or not mentioned in the media content. Visibility/invisibility and formality/informality are tactical choices applied by journalists and sources. They influence agenda building in the short term and shared interpretations that dominate the public sphere in the long term.However, the extent to which informal and/or invisible sources participate, what their role is, and why have not been consistently measured. This paper offers a matrix model to map and compare the usage of formal/informal and visible/invisible interactions between journalists and their sources. The data consists of 475 journalist-source interactions in Lithuania and Sweden reconstructed by 33 political journalists.The results demonstrate how different interactions presuppose different source roles in the news process. Formal invisible sources act as gatekeepers, and informal invisible sources act as agenda setters.

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From Interactions to the Mediatization of Politics. How the Relationships Between Journalists and Political Actors Explain Media Influences on Political Processes and the Presentation of Politics

Cited by 11 publications

References 37 publications

Why bite the hand that feeds you? Politicians’ and journalists’ perceptions of common conflicts

Why bite the hand that feeds you? Politicians’ and journalists’ perceptions of common conflicts

Impact of Packaging Politics and Branding of Political Leaders on Public’s Political Perception

Reconstructing the Informal and Invisible: Interactions Between Journalists and Political Sources in Two Countries

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