Response to Ellen Mickiewicz's review of When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 935-935
Author(s):  
W. Lance Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Iraq War ◽  
Bush Administration ◽  
Government Institutions ◽  
Critical Junctures ◽  
The Press ◽  
Responsibility Of Government ◽  
Mainstream Press

Ellen Mickiewicz has done an excellent job of presenting the key elements of our argument and empirical analysis about why the mainstream press proved incapable of independent news framing at critical junctures in the Iraq War. She then raises a series of excellent broader questions: What about the responsibility of government institutions to hold those in power accountable? What about the independent force of public opinion? Were earlier administrations as able to spin the press as successfully as the Bush administration? Each of these questions might well fuel a book. I can only address them briefly in this response.

When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina. By W. Lance Bennett, Regina G. Lawrence, and Steven Livingston. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 278p. $22.50 cloth, $15.00 paper.

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 933-935
Author(s):  
Ellen Mickiewicz
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
University Of Chicago ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
The Press ◽  
Mainstream Press ◽  
University Of Chicago Press

It takes a vacuum for the American mainstream press to seize an opening to perform its vital role. And it takes a crack in what the authors portray as an edifice of official secrecy, lying, intimidation, and retribution for the mainstream press to do its job—holding public officials to standards of accountability.

scholarly journals REALITAS MASYARAKAT INDONESIA DALAM MEDIA MASSA

2013 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-76
Author(s):  
Asep Soegiarto
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Social Control ◽  
News Media ◽  
Fourth Power ◽  
Media Ownership ◽  
Media Image ◽  
The Press ◽  
Key Word ◽  
The Media

Abstract The mass media, not just serve as the grantor information, the amusement and social control or fourth power as a nation ( the four estate ), but also as a form of public opinion who directs and public opinion in the issues developing world. Reporters when covering an event and writing it has a tendency to subjective and biased. The problem of bias in the press is not a matter of who, or of what system, is supported. The problem is that the bias exists, and the system through which our media operates seems guaranteed to ensure that bias will continue. Journalistic product in the media is not the whole of the reality of the society but only parts of reality that described as realities. In a so-called media image. The news media in a determined by its media ownership, and other factors it has a very significant role aside from bias a journalist   Key Word: Objectivity, Media Biased, Media Image

How to Tell the Truth without Outraging the Press?

MedienJournal ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 30 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 37
Author(s):  
Li Xiguang
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Chinese News Media

The commercialization of meclia in China has cultivated a new journalism business model characterized with scandalization, sensationalization, exaggeration, oversimplification, highly opinionated news stories, one-sidedly reporting, fabrication and hate reporting, which have clone more harm than good to the public affairs. Today the Chinese journalists are more prey to the manipu/ation of the emotions of the audiences than being a faithful messenger for the public. Une/er such a media environment, in case of news events, particularly, during crisis, it is not the media being scared by the government. but the media itself is scaring the government into silence. The Chinese news media have grown so negative and so cynica/ that it has produced growing popular clistrust of the government and the government officials. Entering a freer but fearful commercially mediated society, the Chinese government is totally tmprepared in engaging the Chinese press effectively and has lost its ability for setting public agenda and shaping public opinions. 

Constructing Public Opinion and Manipulating Symbols: China's Press Cover-age of the Student Movement in 1989

1995 ◽  
Vol 72 (2) ◽  
pp. 412-425 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guo-Qiang Zhang ◽  
Sidney Kraus
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Chinese Communist Party ◽  
Student Movement ◽  
Dominant Ideology ◽  
Tiananmen Square ◽  
The Press ◽  
Before And After ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Military

This content analysis of Chinese newspapers before and after the Tiananmen Square protest examines the symbolic representation of the Student Movement of 1989 in China. The study reveals that top leaders manipulated symbols given to the media and that these symbols rigorously highlighted the dominant ideology of the Chinese Communist Party and isolated the movement participants. Officials attempted to legitimize the military suppression of the movement. The press construction of public opinion echoed the hegemonic process created and maintained by the party structure.

Obama White House photos limited by access policies

2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole Smith Dahmen ◽  
Erin K. Coyle
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Visual Narrative ◽  
Media Access ◽  
Critical Function ◽  
White House ◽  
The Press ◽  
Access Policies ◽  
Depth Interviews

Through surveys and in-depth interviews with members of the White House News Photographers Association, this study indicates that visual journalists understand the value of the watchdog role and that current White House practices interfere with this critical function. Limiting news media access and attempting to control the visual narrative undermines the ability of the press to perform the watchdog function that is critical for democratic self-governance.

scholarly journals The Press and Public Opinion

1899 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 372-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. S. Yarros
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
The Press

scholarly journals Public opinion and the news media

1997 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-54
Author(s):  
Frank Senge Kolma
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
News Media ◽  
Political Party ◽  
News Article ◽  
More Care ◽  
The Masses

During the elections the news media, both as a corporate citizen and as the conveyor of events, happenings and decisions to the masses, is called upon to exercise more care and responsibility than at any other time. An innocent looking news article could spell doom for a political party or a leader. 

scholarly journals Media, church and the Sandline plot?

1996 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-16
Author(s):  
William Ferea
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
General Election ◽  
Freedom Of The Press ◽  
The Press ◽  
Papua New Guinean

The news media (both Papua New Guinean and foreign) did a great job carrying the events of the Sandline crisis and the general election in its wake. Journalists and the churches would fight to the end for freedom of the press and preserving the constitutional essence of Section 46.

scholarly journals RITUAIS ANTICRISES: como as organizações se preparam para situações adversas de imagem

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 926-943
Author(s):  
Luiz Alberto De Farias ◽  
Sergio Andreucci
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
Crisis Management ◽  
Organizational Identity ◽  
Crisis Communication ◽  
National Market ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
The Press

O artigo descreve os rituais e as estratégias de relações públicas utilizadas pelas assessorias de comunicação de empresas e organizações dos diversos segmentos, atuantes no mercado nacional, realizadas por meio de ações, programas e planos estruturados de gestão de crises.  Analisa ainda as vulnerabilidades da identidade, imagem e reputação organizacionais, os processos narrativos, as táticas aplicadas, a preparação dos porta-vozes, a função dos comitês de crises, a efetividade na intermediação das relações entre as organizações e a imprensa e as suas interfaces com a opinião pública.   PALAVRAS-CHAVE: relações públicas; crise; comunicação; opinião pública; reputação.     ABSTRACT The article describes the rituals and strategies of public relations used by the communication advisors of companies and organizations of the various segments, operating in the national market, through actions, programs and structured plans of crisis management. It also analyzes the vulnerabilities of organizational identity, image and reputation, narrative processes, tactics applied, preparation of spokespersons, the role of crisis committees, effectiveness in mediating relations between organizations and the press and their interfaces with public opinion.   KEYWORDS: public relations; crisis; Communication; public opinion; reputation.     RESUMEN El artículo describe los rituales y las estrategias de relaciones públicas utilizadas por las asesorías de comunicación de empresas y organizaciones de los diversos segmentos, actuantes en el mercado nacional, realizadas a través de acciones, programas y planes estructurados de gestión de crisis. Se analizan las vulnerabilidades de la identidad, imagen y reputación organizativas, los procesos narrativos, las tácticas aplicadas, la preparación de los portavoces, la función de los comités de crisis, la efectividad en la intermediación de las relaciones entre las organizaciones y la prensa y sus interfaces con la opinión pública.   PALABRAS CLAVE: relaciones públicas; crisis; la comunicación; opinión pública; reputación.

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