ISSN:0021-9916    

DOI:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1992.tb00764.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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A long‐standing division in positions on media policy reflects differences in faith regarding the efficacy of market versus government processes for achieving important communications policy objectives. The debate over content diversity between the advocates of market solutions and those who are critical of them reveals that the standard arguments of both camps rest on differences in assumptions that have not been subjected to careful analysis. Furthermore, analysts in each camp have failed to acknowledge or incorporate into their own analyses the other camp's legitimate insights. The result is a flawed policy dialogue that shows no signs of iterating toward a consensus or of making much progress toward an improved understanding of the requirements for effective communications policy. This failure reflects, in part, limitations in the constructs implied by the “marketplace of ideas” metaphor that has guided much of the thinking by both camps and the ways these constructs have been employed. New metaphors are needed to guide an expanded research agenda designed to assist in the development of more effective communications p

ISSN:0021-9916    

DOI:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1992.tb00765.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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Due to the emergence of mixed broadcasting economies in multichannel conditions, public television throughout Western Europe faces a formidable challenge of role redefinition. The authors' proposed approach to this is based on: (a) a competitive complementarity with commercial television; (b) a qualitative sense of programming priorities; and (c) the social character of public broadcasting, which entails major cultural, political, and social functions. Asking whether such a recipe is viable, the authors conclude that it depends on how public television fares in its competition with commercial television to shape viewers' expectations of programming. They give reasons why this can be waged successfully, thus serving as a model for other democracies, as they increasingly realize that commercial television alone cannot satisfy a society's communication needs.

ISSN:0021-9916    

DOI:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1992.tb00766.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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The post‐Stalinist states in Eastern Europe will almost certainly develop a newspaper press that is based on the market. These developments pose some problems for the future of the developing democratic systems. This paper examines the detailed workings of the press market in a situation where advertising revenue is an important element in newspaper finances, using examples from Britain. It is demonstrated that left to itself this market will stratify information provision and fail to provide all citizens with the same quality of information and opinion. In particular, low‐income groups who want access to detailed public information, will not be catered to. To alleviate these problems and to assist in the development of democracy, it is argued that the reconstruction of public communication in Eastern Europe must make use of subsid

ISSN:0021-9916    

DOI:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1992.tb00767.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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Since passage of the Cable Communications Policy Act of 1984, the cable industry has thoroughly demonstrated its failure to serve the public interest, as measured minimally in diversity of sources. Regulating cable's monopolistic tendencies could improve rates and service, and increase the range of sources within the constraints of the commercial marketplace. However, to fulfill the promise of the First Amendment, subsidized noncommercial public spaces also need to be universal on cable services, as sites not merely of individual expression but for the practice of civic life.

ISSN:0021-9916    

DOI:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1992.tb00768.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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This article considers how journalists have turned stories about the Gulf War into a forum for discussing satellite‐fed technology, real‐time reportage, and other issues of concern to the professional community. In focusing on the Cable News Network (CNN) and Peter Arnett, reporters have turned the Gulf War into a critical incident that helps them consider consensual notions of professional pract

ISSN:0021-9916    

DOI:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1992.tb00769.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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Although newswork is usually accomplished through routine practices, some occurrences are far from routine. This study looks at how newsworkers at one local television station created their coverage of a major (“what‐a‐story”) story. Data came from newsroom observation. To manage this non‐routine occurrence, newsworkers improvised around well‐established routines, rather than developing an entirely different work process. Typifying likely story elements and story actors was a key strategy underlying their efforts to negotiate the status of the occurrence and to create n

ISSN:0021-9916    

DOI:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1992.tb00770.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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In 1981 the Media Institute published an analysis of television characters in business occupations. Its fundamental finding was that these characters are typically shown perpetrating various sorts of evil behavior and that this behavior tends to paint a negative picture of American business and the capitalist system. This article challenges that assertion through a new content analysis and reexamination of the original Media Institute data. Analysis of the role of social class in portrayals of television characters shows that television stigmatizes wealth, not business.

ISSN:0021-9916    

DOI:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1992.tb00771.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:0021-9916    

DOI:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1992.tb00772.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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Book reviewed in this article:Television and the Crisis of DemocracyBy Douglas Kellner.The World Television Industry: An Economic AnalysisBy Peter J. S. Dunnett.The Age Of Behetmths: The Globalization of Mas Media FirmsBy Anthony Smith/reviewed By Douglas M. McLeodInside Family Viewing: Ethnographic Research on Television's AudiencesBy James Lull.Games and Sets: The Changing Face of Sport on TelevisionBy Steven Barnett.Border Dialogues: Journeys in PostmodernityBy Ian Chambers.Enacting Political Culture: Rhetorical Transformations of Liberty Weekend 1986By David E. Procter.FromThe AvengerstoMiami Vice: Form and Ideology in Television SeriesBy David Buxton.The Many Lives of the Batman EditedBy Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio.Pray TV: Televangelism in AmericaBy Steve Bruce.Berlin Calling: American Broadcasters in Service to the Third ReichBy John Carver Edwards.FDR and the News MediaBy Betty Houchin Winfield.Canadian Dreams and American Control: The Political Economy of the Canadian Film IndustryBy Manjunath Pendakur.Profiles of Deception How the News Media Are Deceiving the American PeopleBy Reed Irvine and Cliff Kincaid.Unreliable Sources: A Guide to Detecting Bias in News MediaBy Martin A. Lee and Norman Solomon.The Press, Presidents, and CrisesBy Brigitte Lebens Nacos.The Media and Foreign Policy EditedBy Simon Serfaty.Social Conflict and Television NewsBy Akiba A. Cohen, Hanna Adoni, and Charles R. Bantz.Mass Media and the Caribbean EditedBy Stuart H. Surlin and Walter C. Soderlund.Mass Communications in the CaribbeanBy John A. Lent.Caribbean Popular Culture EditedBy John A. Lent.

ISSN:0021-9916    

DOI:10.1111/j.1460-2466.1992.tb00773.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY