The role of the written press during the Spanish transition to democracy

This study describes the relations between the press and political power, during the Spanish transition to democracy in the late 1970s, focusing on discursive relations between political actors with power or challenging power and the media which interpreted their developments. It analyses how the main media, in the discourse of their news stories and editorials, framed events to construct a ‘reality’ for the public, aiding or impeding the construction of a democratic public sphere. The study is based on an analysis of journalistic discourse in ABC, La Vanguardia, El País (daily newspapers) and Triunfo (a weekly political magazine) in their coverage of key events in the period between the death of Franco (November 1975) and the approval of the Basque and Catalan statutes (November 1979).

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How to Tell the Truth without Outraging the Press?

MedienJournal ◽

10.24989/mj.v30i2-3.290 ◽

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.

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Crystallising the official narrative: News discourses about the killings from the Philippine government’s campaign against illegal drugs

Journalism ◽

10.1177/1464884919867820 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 146488491986782 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Cheryll Ruth R Soriano ◽

Clarissa C David ◽

Jenna Mae Atun

Keyword(s):

Zero Tolerance ◽

Television News ◽

Public Perceptions ◽

The Public ◽

News Stories ◽

Zero Tolerance Policy ◽

The Media ◽

State Responses ◽

Selection Of

News media’s construction of crime and drugs can shape and change public perceptions and influence popular acceptance of policy and state responses. In this way, media, through selection of sources and framing of narratives, act as important agents of social control, either independently or indirectly by state actors. This article examines how the Philippine government’s anti-drug campaign, and the thousands of deaths resulting from them, has been depicted by the media to the public. We conducted a discourse analysis of television news stories to extract dominant frames and narratives, finding a pattern of over-privileging of State authority as a source, resulting in a monolithic message of justifying the killing of suspects. Furthermore, the ‘event-focused’ slant, which dominates the character of reports by media, inevitably solidifies the narrative that the deaths are a necessary consequence of a national public safety campaign. By relying almost exclusively on this narrative, to the exclusion of alternative frames, the media amplifies and crystallises the state’s narrative. As we critically examine how drugs, drug use and the zero-tolerance policy are positioned through discourse in news texts, the article raises important implications to the ethics and role of journalism in politics and provides explanations relating to crime-reporting norms, values and media organisation realities in the country.

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The media presentation of the migration crisis: An analysis of the discourse on the Croatian women politicians

Northern Lights Film and Media Studies Yearbook ◽

10.1386/nl_00024_1 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 19 (1) ◽

pp. 79-100 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Nikolina Borčić ◽

Sara Glavač

Keyword(s):

Women Politicians ◽

Social Role ◽

Her Family ◽

The Public ◽

News Stories ◽

Media Presentation ◽

The Media ◽

Migration Crisis ◽

Ideological Construction

This article analyses links between the archetypal myths in Croatian news stories and images of woman politicians transferring through the media to the public. A total of 73 articles have been empirically analysed using content analysis to identify master myths according to Jack Lule’s classification in Croatian news articles about the migration crisis 2015. The analysis covers the period from 31 July 2015 to 8 November 2015. The articles have been selected by searching web extension of the newspapers Jutarnji list, Večernji list and 24sata from 31 July 2015 to 8 November 2015. The data has been selected, coded and analysed per chosen woman politicians, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, Vesna Pusić, Mirela Holy, Ruža Tomašić and Milanka Opačić. The results show that the dominant myth in all analysed statements is the myth of a good mother. In doing so, the use of lexemes indicates a stereotyped and idealized social role of a woman who cares for and protects ‘her family’. Two framing perspectives are evident: one is a patriarchal, protective and defensive attitude towards migrants, while the other is humanitarian, based on a positive attitude towards migrants. The article’s value is that it provides a perspective on mythological narration within media texts, whereby the mythological narration could be used as a tool for stereotypical and ideological construction on politician’s images in the media.

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Coverage of Women’s Issues by Urdu and English Press: A Comparative Analysis

IMS Manthan (The Journal of Innovations) ◽

10.18701/imsmanthan.v9i1and2.5168 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 9 (1and2) ◽

Author(s):

Dr. G. K. Sahu ◽

Shah Alam

Keyword(s):

News Media ◽

Human Life ◽

Belief Systems ◽

Contemporary Society ◽

Women's Issues ◽

The Public ◽

The Press ◽

The Media ◽

Contemporary Media

We are living in a mediated world where every aspect of human life is getting affected by images of media. Consciously or unconsciously, knowingly or unknowingly our attitudes, values and belief systems are getting increasingly influenced by media. Some media critics expressed serious concern over the influence of the media in our everyday life. In the contemporary media saturated world, the agenda of the media becoming the public agenda. It is in this context, the news media play an important role in shaping public opinion and creating consciousness on different issues. Keeping in view of the importance of the news media in the contemporary society, the paper makes an attempt to ascertain the agenda setting role of the press towards women’s issues. For the purpose two mainstream dailies- one from the English and the other from the Urdu language newspapers purposively taken and their contents related to women’s issues have been subjected to detailed analysis.

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Analysis of Lavapiés through its Linguistic Landscape and the Press

Open Linguistics ◽

10.1515/opli-2019-0025 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 466-487

Author(s):

Ester Saiz de Lobado García ◽

Almudena Revilla Guijarro

Keyword(s):

Public Spaces ◽

Linguistic Landscape ◽

Special Issue ◽

The Public ◽

News Stories ◽

Gateway Cities ◽

The Press ◽

The Media ◽

And Migration ◽

The City

AbstractThe XXth century gateway cities in Europe, such as Madrid, have followed and in-depth population readjustment, due to the arrival of immigrants from all over the world. This readjustment has left traces in the public spaces of the city; and the media have noted this phenomenon as well.This paper aims at analysing the superdiversity present in Lavapiés, through two different and complementary methodologies: the analyses of the Linguistic Landscape and of press corpora. The analysis of the landscape of the territory will be conducted through a corpus of images or Linguistic Cartography that includes samples of multilingualism present in the area. The press corpora contain news stories, interviews and articles on immigration. These analyses will provide a better picture of the area, in terms of diversity. This paper is part of the Post-conference Special Issue on Language and Migration.

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Debating the EU Constitution in France

Journal of Language and Politics ◽

10.1075/jlp.9.1.06kou ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 115-139 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Angeliki Koukoutsaki-Monnier

Keyword(s):

Political Communication ◽

The Political ◽

Mediation Process ◽

Rhetorical Strategies ◽

Constitutional Treaty ◽

Political Actors ◽

Daily Newspapers ◽

The Media ◽

The Eu

This paper focuses on the argumentative approaches and the rhetorical strategies employed by political actors in France in favour of or against the EU Constitutional Treaty (TCE), as they appeared in four French daily newspapers, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Libération and Aujourd’hui en France (national edition of Le Parisien), before the 29th of May 2005 referendum. In a qualitative discourse analysis and with the aid of argumentation theories and political communication approaches, the study investigates how the European Union’s Constitution, identity and future were represented and discussed by French political actors through the media in their effort to obtain public adherence before the referendum. Inevitably, the role of the media and the mediation process in the construction and transcription of the political discourse is also discussed.

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ANALISIS PERAN HUMAS PEMERINTAH DAERAH PROVINSI BENGKULU DALAM MENJALANKAN HUBUNGAN DENGAN PERS (Studi pada Dinas Perhubungan, Komunikasi dan Informatika Provinsi Bengkulu)

Profesional: Jurnal Komunikasi dan Administrasi Publik ◽

10.37676/professional.v1i1.127 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Yetti Herawati ◽

Linda Astuti ◽

Maryaningsih

Keyword(s):

Public Relations ◽

Qualitative Method ◽

Provincial Government ◽

Research Subjects ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Good Relationship ◽

The Public ◽

The Press ◽

The Media

Government Public Relations could serve as a means or channel of government agencies in running relationship with the press, including the Local Government of Bengkulu province. This study aimed to see at how public relations play this role. The method used in this research was descriptive qualitative method in which the data collection was conducted by semi- structured interviews to research subjects. It’s possible for researchers to develop questions appropriate to the situation and condition so it was possible to get complete data. From the research, the role of PR in the Bengkulu Provincial Government ran good relationship with the press. The good role of the public relations could be demonstrated by the implementation of most of the series of activities such as: building and maintaining a good relationship with the press, served and understood the media, press interviews, broadcast rebuttal, filling out the important public section in the press, and documentation.Keywords : Public Relation Role, Mass Media Relation

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Representaciones de lo alternativo en el Madrid de tránsito a la democracia. El caso de la (contra)cultura mediática de las radios libres (1976-1989).

RIHC Revista Internacional de Historia de la Comunicación ◽

10.12795/rihc.2020.i15.05 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 2 (15) ◽

pp. 87-105

Author(s):

José Emilio Pérez Martínez

Keyword(s):

Social Movement ◽

Transition To Democracy ◽

Alternative Communication ◽

Radio Stations ◽

Spanish Transition ◽

The Media ◽

New Social Movement ◽

Radical Left

In the 1980s, a multitude of small radio stations proliferated in the Spanish ether, posing a new way of doing and understanding communication, and constituting a new social movement: that of free radios. A movement that was born and grew within an alternative subculture, close to the radical left, for which it played the role of an instance of ideological production and reproduction. In these pages we will see how the media counterculture that surrounded these stations generated a subcultural style based on the transformation and resignification of language that helped to build an identity and a representation of the alternative in Madrid during the Transition to democracy. Keywords: free radios, alternative communication, subculture, Spanish Transition

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Communication, the media and deliberation

10.1332/policypress/9781447337201.003.0008 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 159-180

Author(s):

Tim Marshall ◽

Tim Marshall

Keyword(s):

Two Dimensions ◽

Public Deliberation ◽

Public Understanding ◽

Extensive Experience ◽

The Public ◽

The Press ◽

Neutral Process ◽

The Media

Part of the processes analysed in chapters 6 and 7 concerns the communication and mediation of ideas and policies. This is not an innocent or neutral process, but something which can affect deeply the content of any field being communicated and mediated. This chapter examines two dimensions of these activities. One focus is on the media, including the range of communication fields affecting planning. Particular study is made of the role of the press centrally and locally. The impending demise of the local press in Britain is studied, noting the problematic effects for the public understanding of planning. The second focus is on the actual and potential roles of public deliberation and participation. It is argued that there is scope to improve this considerably, working on the foundation of extensive experience built up nationally and internationally over recent decades.

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