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Mapping the Cultural Space of Journalism: How Journalists Distinguish News from Entertainment
By Samuel P. Winch
208 pages
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Synopsis
Addressing the controversial issues of the blurring boundaries between news and entertainment and the movement toward sensationalism in broadcast journalism, this study examines these distinctions: how boundaries are constructed and by whom; how they are enforced or broken and why. Rather than reflecting essential attributes by which news can be distinguished from other kinds of communication, "boundary setting" is viewed as a social construction, determined and changed by journalists wishing to ...
Addressing the controversial issues of the blurring boundaries between news and entertainment and the movement toward sensationalism in broadcast journalism, this study examines these distinctions: how boundaries are constructed and by whom; how they are enforced or broken and why. Rather than reflecting essential attributes by which news can be distinguished from other kinds of communication, "boundary setting" is viewed as a social construction, determined and changed by journalists wishing to assert their jurisdiction and authority and the prestige of the profession. Four instances of "boundary-work rhetoric" are examined in depth: (1) the development of roles and "rules" of television journalism during the early years of television; (2) attempts at Congressional and FTC regulation--broadcasting codes defining "bona fide" news; (3) responses to a 1992 journalistic scandal over a "Dateline NBC" story on exploding GM pickup trucks, and (4) reporting sex scandals during recent political campaigns, such as the allegations of Gennifer Flowers of her involvement with Bill Clinton. In these and other cases, journalists developed strategies to minimize harm to the profession.
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Table of contents
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- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Tables and Figures ix
- Foreword xi
- Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
- 1 - The Cultural Space of Journalism 1
- Introduction 1
- Summary 10
- Note 11
- 2 - The Boundary-Work Approach 13
- 3 - The Evolution of Television News: Growing Up in an Entertainment Medium 27
- Introduction 27
- Conclusions 69
- 4 - Mission Impossible? When Government Tries to Map the Boundaries of Journalism 73
- Conclusions 92
- Notes 94
- Title Page iii
- Contents vii
- Tables and Figures ix
- Foreword xi
- Preface and Acknowledgments xiii
- 1 - The Cultural Space of Journalism 1
- Introduction 1
- Summary 10
- Note 11
- 2 - The Boundary-Work Approach 13
- 3 - The Evolution of Television News: Growing Up in an Entertainment Medium 27
- Introduction 27
- Conclusions 69
- 4 - Mission Impossible? When Government Tries to Map the Boundaries of Journalism 73
- Conclusions 92
- Notes 94
- 5 - Protecting the Cultural Authority of Journalism by Sanctioning Deviance 95
- Introduction 95
- Conclusions 110
- Notes 112
- 6 - The Clinton and Flowers Story: Too Good to Pass Up 113
- Introduction 113
- Summary 143
- Notes 146
- 7 - Conclusions 149
- References 167
- Index 185
- About the Author 189
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