Journalism under (ideological) threat: Safeguarding and enhancing public service media into the 21st century

Cushion, Stephen

doi:10.1177/1464884918807036

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“…In practice, PSM should first commit to universally serving and engaging with all publics, including minorities and special groups like children, and then to providing a wide range of innovative quality content that caters to the diverse interests and voices of the public. There is evidence of such "distinctiveness" (e.g., Cushion 2019;Hendrickx et al 2019). For instance, PSM, especially well-resourced PSM, effectively contribute to people's knowledge of public affairs and politics and mitigate the impacts of an increasingly polarized media environment (Aalberg and Curran 2012;Cushion 2019).…”

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“…There is evidence of such "distinctiveness" (e.g., Cushion 2019;Hendrickx et al 2019). For instance, PSM, especially well-resourced PSM, effectively contribute to people's knowledge of public affairs and politics and mitigate the impacts of an increasingly polarized media environment (Aalberg and Curran 2012;Cushion 2019). However, as Goddard (2017) argued, distinctiveness should be understood as an ambition rather than as a shared quality trait for the evaluation of the role of PSM.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Spain, in contrast, represents the aforementioned polarized countries. We also included the UK, given the image of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) as a paragon of PSM on the one hand and the current challenges that it faces on the other (Cushion 2019;Freedman 2018). The CZE represents Central and Eastern Europe, in which both the media aims (see Herrero et al 2017) and the contexts for disinformation and resilience (Russ-Mohl 2018) differ significantly from those of Northern, Southern and Western Europe.…”

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“…In academic research, the role of PSM organizations as a counterweight to the negative consequences of commercial platforms is generally acknowledged (e.g., Cushion 2019;Nielsen, Gorwa, and de Cock Buning 2019;Van den Bulck, Donders, and Lowe 2018), but their role as a response to mis/disinformation has not been systematically and holistically examined, nor have the specific activities and challenges of individual PSM organizations. The literature on PSM and disinformation has been limited to a few studies on PSM remit in the age of information disorder (Horowitz and Lowe 2020) and fact checking by public service broadcasters (e.g., Kyriakidou and Cushion 2021).…”

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A Framework for Assessing the Role of Public Service Media Organizations in Countering Disinformation

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Public service media (PSM) are widely acknowledged as part of the variety of solutions to disinformation. The remit of PSM, formed around values of universality, equality, diversity, accuracy and quality, implies a responsibility to fight disinformation by producing fact-based news content and finding anti-disinformation solutions. In this article, we introduce a framework for assessing how PSM organizations are able to counter disinformation in different contexts. Our normative framework provides a triangulation of contextual factors that determine the role of the PSM organization in the national environment, the activities carried out to fight disinformation and expert assessments of the potential of PSM to reduce the impact of disinformation. The framework is illustrated with analyses of PSM from the Czech Republic (CZE), Finland, Spain and the United Kingdom (UK).

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“…This preference is stronger for commercial television outlets, but weaker for public service broadcasters. Indeed, public service media have been a particular target for negative attacks from populists as their influence has grown in recent years (Cushion 2018).…”

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Intentional or inadvertent fake news sharing? Fact-checking warnings and users’ interaction with social media content

Ardèvol‐Abreu

Macchione

Wangüemert

2020

EPI

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The main social media platforms have been implementing strategies to minimize fake news dissemination. These include identifying, labeling, and penalizing –via news feed ranking algorithms– fake publications. Part of the rationale behind this approach is that the negative effects of fake content arise only when social media users are deceived. Once debunked, fake posts and news stories should therefore become harmless. Unfortunately, the literature shows that the effects of misinformation are more complex and tend to persist and even backfire after correction. Furthermore, we still do not know much about how social media users evaluate content that has been fact-checked and flagged as false. More worryingly, previous findings suggest that some people may intentionally share made up news on social media, although their motivations are not fully explained. To better understand users’ interaction with social media content identified or recognized as false, we analyze qualitative and quantitative data from five focus groups and a sub-national online survey (N = 350). Findings suggest that the label of ‘false news’ plays a role –although not necessarily central– in social media users’ evaluation of the content and their decision (not) to share it. Some participants showed distrust in fact-checkers and lack of knowledge about the fact-checking process. We also found that fake news sharing is a two-dimensional phenomenon that includes intentional and unintentional behaviors. We discuss some of the reasons why some of social media users may choose to distribute fake news content intentionally.

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Royal Charters, Royal Power, and the Business of Empire

Paul

2023

Palgrave Studies in the History of Finance

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Journalism under (ideological) threat: Safeguarding and enhancing public service media into the 21st century

Cited by 16 publications

References 5 publications

A Framework for Assessing the Role of Public Service Media Organizations in Countering Disinformation

A Framework for Assessing the Role of Public Service Media Organizations in Countering Disinformation

Intentional or inadvertent fake news sharing? Fact-checking warnings and users’ interaction with social media content

Royal Charters, Royal Power, and the Business of Empire

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