Mapping the Cultural Space of Journalism: How Journalists Distinguish News from Entertainment
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Praeger Publishers
- Publish date: 04/01/1997
Description:
Addressing the controversial issues of the blurring boundaries between news and entertainment and the movement toward sensationalism in broadcast journalism, this book 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.
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