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In: | Media, Culture & Society, 25, 2003, 5, S. 669-690 |
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SAGE Publications
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Medientyp: | Artikel, E-Artikel |
Umfang: | 669-690 |
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ISSN: |
0163-4437
1460-3675 |
DOI: | 10.1177/01634437030255006 |
veröffentlicht in: | Media, Culture & Society |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Kollektion: | SAGE Publications (CrossRef) |
<jats:p> This article makes the case that critical research in media studies needs to devote more attention to the part played by media and culture in elite decision-making. It argues that the mass media/mass influence paradigm is, of itself, no longer adequate to explain the utility of communications in the sustenance of unequal power relations in society. Instead, evidence presented here observes that a major function of news media is to act as a communications forum for elites in their daily conflicts and negotiations. With elites acting as sources, targets and major recipients of news texts, inter-elite, rather than elite-mass, communications seems to be a key feature of the political process. These findings are based on a series of 98 semi-structured interviews with political and corporate news sources, and senior journalists in the UK. </jats:p> |