JOUR 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Organisational Routines, Tacit Assumption
23 Sep 2020
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Psychological explanation- need for orientation, control environment. Need for orientation defined by two components. Relevance the more relevant the topic, the more need for orientation. Uncertainty low uncertainty ( people understand topic ) need for orientation is moderate. Elite opinion confers legitimacy to certain issues, thus making them more likely to be covered by the press. Elite opinion media agenda public opinion. Hallin"s argument about change in news coverage of vietnam war: sphere of consensus no need to present dissenting views. Journalism advocates those values: sphere of legitimate controversy election, legislative debates, limited by two-party system, sphere of deviance journalism as defender of status quo ideas. Although journalism doesn"t transparently represent reality out there, it nevertheless portrays society with certain biases. News as social construction of reality has inherenct biases. Types of bias: ideological, professional, ownership, organizational. Give the upper hand of certain kinds of news and newsmakers: politics, economics, spors, entertainment, official sources, pr, business, celebrities.
