Mass Media, News, and their Influence over the Political System

This article sets out to systematize several theoretical frameworks in order to study the relationship between mass media and the political system. Besides their role in-between events and audiences, the starting point of this paper is that mass media are business actors with a crucial role in the p...

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Autor principal: Califano, Bernadette; Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociales 2015
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Acceso en línea:http://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/rmop/article/view/50203
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=mx/mx-047&d=article50203oai
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Sumario:This article sets out to systematize several theoretical frameworks in order to study the relationship between mass media and the political system. Besides their role in-between events and audiences, the starting point of this paper is that mass media are business actors with a crucial role in the political system. On their daily work, they construct news by including, excluding and organizing events hierarchically in journalistic agendas. These tasks are accomplished not just following news values criteria but also strategies designed to obtain certain political-economic goals. By publishing current political events, and maintaining negotiations and agreements with politicians outside the formal democratic process, they are capable to influence over the public policy-making process.