My brief for Ghana radio

1984 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-30
Author(s):  
Kwame Karikari
Keyword(s):  
Free Press ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Government

The Acting Head of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation explains the role of radio and answers charges that the government of Jerry Rawlings has tried to ‘muzzle’ the press This interview was given on 4 July 1983, during a short visit to London. Later that month, journalists working on the Free Press newspaper were arrested and detained, and the paper has not been published since.

Press Performance, Human Rights, and Private Power as a Threat

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Edwin Baker
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Legal Theory ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
Magic Bullet ◽  
Market Failures ◽  
Free Press ◽  
Government Power ◽  
The Press ◽  
Private Power

The essay concerns the manner private power threatens the proper democratic role of the press or mass media. But first, Part I examines two preliminary conceptual matters involved in locating this discussion in the context of a conference on private power as a threat to human rights: 1) the relation of human rights to private power in general. This relation is complicated due to fact that human rights can themselves be seen as the assertion of private power against government or against collective power while, depending on how conceptualized, human rights can be improperly threatened by private power even while private power operates in a generally lawful manner; 2) involves the relation of press freedom and human rights. Here I argue that human rights are ill-conceived if offered as embodying any particular right in respect to the press—more specifically, I argue that a free press is not a human right—but argue instead that an ideal media order that is embodied in a broad conception of free press provides the soil in which human rights can flourish and the armor that offers them protection. Both government power and private power are necessary for and constitute threats to these supportive roles of a free press.Political-legal theory—or in constitutional democracies, possibly constitutional theory—should offer some guide to how the tightrope between government as threat and government as source of protection against private threats ought to be walked. That is, the goal is to find both proper limits on government power and proper empowerment of government to respond to private threats. Part II examines the variety of private threats to the proper role of the press. It focuses on two forms of threats: first, market failures that can be expected in relatively normal functioning of the market; second, problems related to the purposeful use of concentrated economic power. Responsive policies are multiple—no magic bullet but varying different governmental (as well as private) responses are appropriate. However, Part III illustrates this point by considering only two types of governmental policies, both of which I have recently been involved in advocating: first, government promotion of dispersal of concentrated power by means of ownership rules and policies; second, tax subsidies in the form of tax credits for a significant portion of journalists salaries as a means to correct for underproduction of journalism on theory that this journalism generally produces significant positive externalities.

Martineau, the Press and Jacksonian America

2020 ◽  
pp. 50-94
Author(s):  
Iain Crawford
Keyword(s):  
Print Culture ◽  
Critical Reception ◽  
Social Progress ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Free Press ◽  
Regional Variations ◽  
The Press ◽  
The City ◽  
North And South

Chapter Two considers Martineau’s American visit, the ways in which the three books she wrote out of it depict the role of education and a free press in the formation of American democracy, and the critical reception they received on both sides of the Atlantic. By contrast with the dichotomous readings of a nation divided between North and South along the lines of slave-ownership that have been the norm in studies of her visit, this chapter argues that the American books offer a more nuanced analysis of a society whose regional variations are most fully understood in terms of the extent to which they either have developed or constrained the development of a free press and a print culture that facilitates the evolution and implementation of liberal ideals. It pays particular attention to Martineau’s representation of the western states and, above all, Cincinnati, which she portrays as an exemplar of economic and moral stadial progress and as a counter to Boston, for her the ‘city of cant’ and an unexpected bastion of resistance to liberal change. Finally, the chapter shows how Martineau returned home committed to finding ways in which her work could participate in and contribute to America’s continuing advance and, in particular, focused upon prospective roles for herself in supporting the interwoven causes of abolitionism and of women’s ability to become agents of social progress.

Back to Bedlam? Chelmsford and the Press

1993 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Lupton
Keyword(s):  
Psychiatric Care ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Royal Commission ◽  
The Public ◽  
Medical Regulation ◽  
South Wales ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Government ◽  
Role Of The Government

The Australian press played a vital part in bringing the events at Chelmsford Private Hospital to the attention of the general public, and in pressuring the New South Wales government to institute a Royal Commission into Deep Sleep Therapy. This paper describes the ways in which the press brought Chelmsford events onto the public agenda. It pays particular attention to aspects of the press coverage of the findings of the Royal Commission. The paper identifies the discourses concerning psychiatric care, the doctor-patient relationship and the role of the government in regulating the medical profession which were dominant in press accounts of Chelmsford. It is argued that while pre-existing stereotypes about mad psychiatrists and asylums were used to describe Chelmsford, more confronting ideas concerning the need for medical regulation and patient consumerism received press attention and therefore a public airing. The implications for psychiatric care in Australia are examined.

scholarly journals Kegiatan Government Public Relation dalam Membangun Komunikasi dengan Dunia Pers: Studi Kasus Humas Pemerintah Kota Administrasi Jakarta Timur

Humaniora ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1056
Author(s):  
Muhammad Aras
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
City Government ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Government

This study focuses on the communications that was built by the Public Relations (PR) in East Jakarta Administration City Government with the Press community through their roles in the administrative activities of government. The purpose of this study was to determine the PR activities of East Jakarta Administration City Government in establishing good communication with the Press as the government's partner in promoting the various activities that are beneficial to society. The research method used in this study is a case study (case study). The results showed that the role of Public Relations of East Jakarta Administration City Government in establishing good communication with the press, is done through activities, such as press conferences, press releases, and press gathering. All activities are done well, so as to create a communication and a good relationship, in any cooperation between the Press and the Government of East Jakarta, making it easier for local governments in disseminating various work programs. 

scholarly journals O papel da imprensa na política no final do Primeiro Reinado: uma análise do jornal Tribuno do Povo * The role of the press in politics in the late First Empire: an analysis of the paper Tribuno do Povo

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 325 ◽  
Author(s):  
FERNANDA CLÁUDIA PANDOLFI
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
The People ◽  
Political Struggles ◽  
The Press ◽  
Pedro I ◽  
First Empire ◽  
The Government ◽  
Opposition Movement

<p></p><p class="Default"><strong>Resumo: </strong>Este artigo aborda o papel da cultura letrada nos embates políticos no final do Primeiro Reinado. Mais especificamente, analisa a atuação do periódico liberal exaltado <em>Tribuno do Povo </em>na oposição ao governo e sua contribuição para a deslegitimação de D. Pedro I, destacando sua importância na difusão de informação e as implicações resultantes para a prática política do período. A conclusão do trabalho é que, ao relacionar suas explicações com o passado e com o presente, interagir com outros periódicos e com leitores e leitoras através de cartas, este periódico contribuiu para erigir identidades políticas como a do “brasileiro” e definir o sentido do termo “patriótico” em contraposição ao “português” e “antipatriótico” que marcaram as disputas no final do Primeiro Reinado.</p><p class="Default"><strong>Palavras-chave: </strong>História da Imprensa; mulheres no século XIX; Iluminismo no Brasil; imprensa e identidade nacional.</p><p class="Default"><strong><br /></strong></p><p class="Default"><strong>Abstract</strong>: This article discusses the role of literacy in the political struggles at the end of the First Empire. Specifically, it analyzes the influence of the radical newspaper “Tribune of the People” in the opposition movement to the government and its contribution to the delegitimization of D. Pedro I, highlighting its importance in spreading information and the resulting implications for political practice in the period. The conclusion of the paper is that, by relating their explanations with the past and the present and interacting with other periodicals and with its readers through letters, this journal helped to build political identities as the "Brazilian" and define the meaning of term "patriotic" versus the "Portuguese" and "unpatriotic" in the disputes that marked the end of the First Empire.</p><p class="Default"><strong>Keywords</strong>: Press History; women in the Nineteenth Century; The Enlightenment; press and national identity.</p>

The Pentagon Papers Framework, Fifty Years Later

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Allison Aviki ◽  
Jonathan Cedarbaum ◽  
Rebecca Lee ◽  
Jessica Lutkenhaus ◽  
Seth P. Waxman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
National Security ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
New York Times ◽  
National Defense ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Government ◽  
The One

In New York Times Co. v. United States,1 the Supreme Court confronted a problem that is inherent in a democratic society that values freedom of expression and, in particular, the role of the press in challenging the truthfulness of claims by the government, especially in the realm of national security. On the one hand, as Justice Potter Stewart wrote in his concurring opinion, “it is elementary” that “the maintenance of an effective national defense require[s] both confidentiality and secrecy.”...

The role of traditional media

2020 ◽  
pp. 282-296
Author(s):  
Denis Galava
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Colonial Period ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Political Landscape ◽  
The Press ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
Over Time

This chapter examines how the Kenyan press has adapted to a constantly changing political landscape and media ecosystem, from the colonial period to Uhuru Kenyatta’s presidency. It interrogates the roles of key actors over this period—press owners, journalists, and successive political regimes—whose interests have helped to shape the moral and practical trajectories of reporting. Using the Daily Nation and The Standard newspapers as case studies, the chapter argues that despite the constantly waxing and waning relationship between the media and the government over time, the press in Kenya is part of ideological state apparatuses and other hegemonic structures that help to “manufacture consent” amid broader discourse over the place of democracy in Kenya’s elections. It concludes that the press was founded to secure and enhance the interests of its owners, not to expand the bounds of debate and expression.

scholarly journals The Media’s Influence on the Government: A Case Study of Venezuela’s Media Agenda Setting with a Non-Free Press and Its Repercussions

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-287
Author(s):  
Susan M. Fredricks ◽  
Joshua D. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Media Culture ◽  
Government Officials ◽  
Free Press ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Government ◽  
Citizens Attitudes ◽  
International Social

A free and open press (unincumbered by political pressures) is necessary to hold government officials accountable. When governments become entangled in the business of licensing and regulating news outlets, news outlets succumb to the pressures of only publishing stories favorable to the current regime. The temptation to publish negative stories could result in losing one’s publishing license. This scenario has been playing out in Venezuela for the past two decades and has led to a media culture of misinformation, confusion, and propaganda. This paper first analyzes the Venezuelan view on the influential forces on its government through the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP). Second, it explores how the Venezuelan government vanquished the free press by affecting the Venezuelan citizens’ attitudes towards the press. Finally, it reviews how the internet and social media are creating new avenues for publishing uncensored and unregulated information in an effort to challenge current government restrictions.

scholarly journals Media Agenda on War against Terrorism: An Analysis of British Newspapers

2020 ◽  
Vol V (I) ◽  
pp. 351-361
Author(s):  
Aasima Safdar ◽  
Samia Manzoor ◽  
Beenish Zaheen
Keyword(s):  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Bush Administration ◽  
September 11Th ◽  
Daily Newspapers ◽  
Media Agenda ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Government ◽  
British Press ◽  
The Guardian

The war against terrorism was started by the Bush administration after the attacks of September 11th . In this context, America attacked Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003 alongside British forces and NATO allies. The present article explored the agenda of the British press regarding War against Terrorism in British press. The study conducted thematic analysis of two mainstream British daily newspapers i.e. The Guardian and The Independent. The standpoint of the British press was inferred to find out either they supported the government stance or they adopted a critical viewpoint regarding these two wars. The results indicated that the British press advised their government to adopt responsible approach to deal with the crisis. Mostly, the issues related to terrorism, Al-Qaeda, US policies and British role in the war against terrorism dominated the news agenda of the British newspapers. The press stressed on the strong role of UNO during the war against terrorism.

scholarly journals Facing the Indonesian Media Conglomeration: Action of Preservation on Political Interest

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Susilo
Keyword(s):  
Media Ownership ◽  
Broadcast Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mass Society ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
The Mind

After 1999, Indonesia's Media became grown up. It is the implication of the fallen of the authoritarian regime, Suharto. The growth has another side effect about trends of media conglomeration. Indonesian Media Conglomerate such as Tanoesoedibjo, Tandjung, Paloh and Bakrie also have the background as a politician. Mass media are an efficient tool to change the mind of people.  Mass society theory makes several basic assumptions about individuals, the role of media, and the nature of social change. Media owner used their media for preserving his political influences. Facing this situation, Indonesian regulation about media ownership ignored by media owners. They used their power in the political area to get away from the regulation. Whereas, in Indonesian Law Number 32, issued on 2002 about Broadcasting Media, Especially on Chapter 36 verse 4 states, "broadcast content must be maintained neutrality and should not put the interests of a group". Many complain from the media audience, but no action from the government. The regulator doesn't enforce the law, especially at Broadcast Media. Most of the press uses the public sphere, who design for democratisation process, not for individual or political party's interest. Keywords: media conglomeration, Indonesia, Politics

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