News decisions: Journalists as partisan actors

被引：198
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作者：
Patterson, TE [1 ]
Donsbach, W [1 ]
机构：
[1] DRESDEN UNIV TECHNOL,INST COMMUN,D-8027 DRESDEN,GERMANY
来源：
POLITICAL COMMUNICATION | 1996年 / 13卷 / 04期
关键词：
cross-national research; journalists; media bias; news decisions; news media; news systems; newspapers; objectivity; partisanship; television news;
D O I：
10.1080/10584609.1996.9963131
中图分类号：
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号：
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要：
Journalists in the Western democracies define themselves primarily as news professionals who are committed to a form of journalism marked by its objectivity and political neutrality. Yet they are also partisan actors whose political beliefs affect their news decisions. This conclusion is backed by evidence from a survey of journalists in five countries: the United States, Great Britain, Germany, Italy, and Sweden. In all five countries, there is a significant correlation between journalists' personal beliefs and their news decisions. The relationship is strongest in news systems where partisanship is an acknowledged component of daily news coverage and is more pronounced among newspaper journalists than broadcast journalists, but partisanship has a modest impact on news decisions in all arenas of daily news, even those bound by law or tradition to a policy of political neutrality.
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页数：14
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