‘Setting the agenda’: the production of opinion at theSunday Times

Autor:	T. Kenichi Serino
Rok vydání:	2010
Předmět:	business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Public debate Public relations Deliberation Democracy Gatekeeping Newspaper Politics Public sphere Sociology business Social Sciences (miscellaneous) News media media_common
Zdroj:	Social Dynamics. 36:99-111
ISSN:	1940-7874 0253-3952
Popis:	The news media in a democracy are widely expected to facilitate public debate on matters of significance to its citizens. However, commentators and issues for newspaper opinion pages are necessarily selected from a broad set of possibilities, and the process of selection is thus significant in shaping the nature of debate and opinion in the media. This article examines how ideas and topics enter the South African print media for public discussion, specifically how opinion pieces and columns are chosen for inclusion in the Sunday Times. Using interviews with decision makers at the Sunday Times, as well as observation of newsroom processes and some analysis of the opinion pages, the research established a number of key factors at play in the ‘gatekeeping’ of opinion, analysis and debate. These include journalistic professional norms, which prioritise news and politics as criteria for selecting topics for discussion; an adherence to notions of public deliberation that resonate with the Habermasian concept of...
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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