Legislators or interpreters? On the relationship between journalists and their readers
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A study of the relationship between regional journalists and their readers in the Netherlands found that readers were generally dissatisfied with the quality of journalistic works and felt the newspapers were out of touch with the reality of their day-to-day lives. Although journalists considered themselves the intellectual voice of the community, readers believed regional papers were not meeting the intellectual and social needs of the community. Journalists should work within the community rather than an intellectual vacuum from which opinions are forced upon the public.
Publication Name: Media, Culture & Society
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0163-4437
Year: 1997
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The interaction of journalists and scientific experts: co-operation and conflict between two professional cultures
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Scientists and journalists operate under different rules of conduct that are appropriate to the curcumstances of each and cannot always be reconciled. Reducing the cultural differences between these two groups would damage the culture of each, so the only apparent strategy for minimizing friction in their necessary interaction is to increase their mutual understanding and communications skills. Journalists and scientists appear to agree most on general points and disagree most on items relevant to specific interaction.
Publication Name: Media, Culture & Society
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0163-4437
Year: 1995
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Science, technology and risk coverage of a community conflict
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The case of the Flambeau Copper Mine in Minnesota illustrates the privileged status of scientific claims relative to cultural claims and the appropriation of supposedly unbiased scientific facts by the power elite. Local newspapers presented the conflict between the mining company and environmental activists as one between the facts and opinion, rather than analyzing the value judgments underlying claims of objectivity. The media apparently saw its role as maintaining community peace rather than promoting change.
Publication Name: Media, Culture & Society
Subject: Mass communications
ISSN: 0163-4437
Year: 1995
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