Essay On Protest And Traditional Media

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PROTESTS AND TRADITIONAL MEDIA
Jarre Middeljans
Designing Academy Inquiry: section [C]
Deadline: 24/3/2014

Introduction A form of political participation is protests. In this literature review the relation between different stages of protests and the role of traditional media in these specific stages will be elucidated. Yet, the relation between the traditional media and protests must be seen a bigger triptych framework consisting of the government, media and protests (Oliver and Maney 2000; Boyle, Amstrong and Mcleod 2012). The two aspects of this particular framework and their relation will be the focus of this literature review. First, the components of the traditional media which can be further explained as local, national and international …show more content…

Yet, different scholars underline the existence of the “protest paradigm” (Oliver and Maney 2000; Boyle and Schmierbach 2009; Mcleod 1999; Stein et al. 2009). This paradigm can be shortly explained as the phenomenon that the media is only focused on the dramatic and spectacle occurrences during the protests rather than focusing on the underlying reasons for the protest. This paradigm is seen as an obstruction for the role of the traditional media in covering protests (Stein et al. 2009). Another important aspect with regards to covering protests by newspapers is objectivity. As mentioned earlier, the “protest paradigm” does not enhance objectivity. On the other hand the level of pluralism in a community is an important factor in the way newspapers portray protests. This structure where the traditional media work is in important factor in the way newspapers portray protests. A less plurastic community, the fewer stories on protests because of the high level of criticism, on the other hand, a more plurastic community is less critical and more headlines appear in the news about protests (McCluskey et al. 2009). Moreover, the newspaper coverage of protests can have two outcomes: selects and distorts the portrayal of protests or infinities the predictors of an events ‘receiving news coverage (Boyle et al. 2012). In both cases tend towards a bias report by the traditional media and by comparing the different angles: from the community towards covering the protest and from the newspaper report itself show that objectivity in covering protests objectivity in news reports is not present. (Oliver and Maney 2000; Boyle et al.

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