Power Without Responsibility

Curran, James P.; Seaton, Jean

doi:10.4324/9780203380413

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“…In recent years, this kind of journalistic scrutiny has become more difficult because of cuts to journalism staffing levels, and the increasing workload demanded in newsrooms. For decades, political economists of the media have posited that the increasing commercialization of news has caused such pressures, and has led to falling editorial standards (Curran and Seaton, 2010;McManus, 1994McManus, , 2009Picard, 2004). Independent, accurate and critical reporting is expensive: it costs in time, money and human resources, all of which are in increasingly short supply.…”

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The challenges for science journalism in the UK

Murcott

Williams

2013

Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment

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Science journalists in the UK face a number of significant challenges, some shared by journalists in general and some specific to the reporting of science. The world of journalism is changing rapidly as online media grow, squeezing resources and putting pressure on journalists to produce maximum output on minimum resources. The effect is to threaten to shift the role of science news production away from science journalists to public relations (PR) professionals, and to reduce the essential democratic role of the journalist holding the spenders of public money to account. Evidence for this is offered from recent research into the state of science journalism in the UK, and from a BBC-commissioned report into the impartiality of new science coverage in the UK by the state broadcaster.

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Section: The Value Of Science Journalismmentioning

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The challenges for science journalism in the UK

Murcott

Williams

2013

Progress in Physical Geography: Earth and Environment

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“…For, in fact, multiple aspects of the conceptual democracy/journalism nexus did not reflect conditions in practice. Historically, journalism took on many forms which were both more and less connected to democracy: journalism was more partial, biased, conflicted and unevenly related to different types of governance than models of journalism aligning it with one notion of democratic process ever assumed (Chalaby, 1996;Curran and Seaton, 1985;Schudson, 1978). For instance, Americans involved in the free-press crusade of the 1940s found a marked degree of resistance to their version of the democracy/journalism link when allies as similar as France and Great Britain favored press controls more extensive than they were willing to entertain (Britannia Waves the Rules, 1946;Perlman, 1946).…”

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On the shelf life of democracy in journalism scholarship

Zelizer

2012

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Scholarship on journalism has long privileged a journalistic world that is narrower than that which resides on the ground. Perhaps nowhere is this as much the case as with the placement of democracy in discussions of the news and the role it has played in driving and shaping journalism scholarship. This article argues that democracy has long occupied a more central role than it deserves when considering the news, and that its centrality primarily in western scholarship has negatively impacted existing understandings of journalism in their broadest possible parameters. Maintaining that democracy in journalism scholarship has over-extended its shelf life, the article calls for a retirement of the concept as a key term for understanding journalism.

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“…Market research commissioned by publishers has long revealed that politics is a minority interest, concentrated among male and older readers. This has led to a cumulative, relative reduction of public affairs coverage in favour of entertainment content in the popular national press (Curran and Seaton, 2010;Rooney, 2000). Market values also strengthened in the national prestige press during the 1990s, leading to its increased popularization (McLachlan and Golding, 2000), and contributed to the erosion of election coverage in local papers (Franklin and Richardson, 2002).…”

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Crime, foreigners and hard news: A cross-national comparison of reporting and public perception

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The Finnish media devote more attention to hard news than the British media, yet Finns are less interested in politics than the British. The principal reason for this difference in news values is that Finnish TV is more subject to public service influence than British TV, and the Finnish press is more strongly influenced by a professional journalistic culture than its British counterpart. While a number of national differences contribute to different levels of public knowledge, the Finns are better informed about hard news topics partly because they are better briefed in these areas by their media.

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Power Without Responsibility

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The challenges for science journalism in the UK

The challenges for science journalism in the UK

On the shelf life of democracy in journalism scholarship

Crime, foreigners and hard news: A cross-national comparison of reporting and public perception

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