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.
Authors
Knight G
Journal
Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 15–41