Explore the Features of News That May Make Contributions to Democracy Journalists Limit the Range of Opinions Present in Notes

The essay explore the features of news that may make contributions to democracy

journalists limit the range of opinions present in notes

1. source-dependence

2. reporters and editors operate according to a set of professional norms (they themselves are constraints)

3. journalists operate within conventional bounds of opinion

Source Dependence

Due to the fact that official sources tend to dominate the news. Therefore, if sources are largely controlled by the politicians then the argument is made that governments are the ones that can control the content and the government is the one facilitating what the media ends up doing.

news media converage emphasizes a lot of the views and actions of leading politicans and other top government officials. Therefore, this limits the range of opinion to which the general public is exposed to.

operational bias in news reporting. Even if journalists goes to outside experts or sources rather than the government officials, the kind of people often sought out are people with experience in government, has access to and knowledge of other government officials, and speak in terms of government officials, interpreting, and predicting unfolding events.

The press believed its job was to follow what the American political system had tossed up for it. It was not the job of the press to offer the public a wide range of issues but to cover, analyze, and discuss the issues the two viable candidates were presenting (bush and gore).

Journalism is an event-centered discourse, more responsive to accidents and explosions in the external world than to fashions in ideas among cultural elites.

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