Journal article
News and Ideology
Abstract
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 …
Authors
Knight G
Journal
Canadian Journal of Communication, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 15–41
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Publication Date
January 3, 1982
DOI
10.22230/cjc.1982v8n4a283
ISSN
0705-3657