News and ideology
G Knight - Canadian Journal of Communication, 1982 - cjc.utpjournals.press
G Knight
Canadian Journal of Communication, 1982•cjc.utpjournals.pressThis paper discusses the relationship between news and ideology in light of recent studies
of newswork and theoretical developments in the understanding of ideology. New, it is
argued, is a representation of wider relations of power and tends to reproduce those
relations in a relatively uncritical fashion. As these relations are themselves characterized by
contradiction and conflict, the function of news cannot be reduced to the role of merely
reproducing a closed, internally integrated social system.
of newswork and theoretical developments in the understanding of ideology. New, it is
argued, is a representation of wider relations of power and tends to reproduce those
relations in a relatively uncritical fashion. As these relations are themselves characterized by
contradiction and conflict, the function of news cannot be reduced to the role of merely
reproducing a closed, internally integrated social system.
This paper discusses the relationship between news and ideology in light of recent studies of newswork and theoretical developments in the understanding of ideology. New, it is argued, is a representation of wider relations of power and tends to reproduce those relations in a relatively uncritical fashion. As these relations are themselves characterized by contradiction and conflict, the function of news cannot be reduced to the role of merely reproducing a closed, internally integrated social system.
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