Et tu, George? Campaign journalism and the politics of compromise


Autoria(s): McNair, Brian
Data(s)

2012

Resumo

There is a category of film about journalism in which journalism is not the star, but the supporting player, and journalists not the protagonists but the Greek chorus, commenting on and also changing the realities they report. In such films the news media are a structuring presence driving the plot, shaping the narrative, constructing what we might think of as a pseudo-reality. Like Daniel Boorstin’s notion of the pseudo-event (introduced in his still-relevant book The Image, 1962), this pseudo-reality is so-named because it would not exist were it not for the demands of the news media’s hunger for stories, and knowledge of the damage they can do with those stories, on the calculations and actions of the key actors. Pseudo-realities form as responses to what political actors think journalists and their organisations need and want, or as efforts to shape journalistic accounts in ways favourable to themselves. Films about politics often feature pseudorealities of this kind, in which the events and actions driving the plot have only a tenuous relationship with important things going on in the everyday world beyond the political arena. Everything we see is about image, perception, appearance.

Identificador

http://eprints.qut.edu.au/54313/

Publicador

Routledge (Taylor & Francis Group)

Relação

DOI:10.1080/17512786.2011.650516

McNair, Brian (2012) Et tu, George? Campaign journalism and the politics of compromise. Journalism Practice, 6(2), pp. 280-282.

Direitos

Copyright 2012 Taylor & Francis

Fonte

Creative Industries Faculty; School of Media, Entertainment & Creative Arts

Palavras-Chave #190301 Journalism Studies #200212 Screen and Media Culture #journalism #United Kingdom #film
Tipo

Journal Article