Making News - Faking Views or Faking News - Making Views
Making News - Faking Views or Faking News - Making Views

Summary/Abstract: There are essentially two approaches to consider news agencies. The empirical approach analyzes the news agency’s central position in managing the distribution of news within the societal or sociopolitical context. It emphasizes questions of media economy, media politics and media policy. News are merely considered as goods – that is, economical, meritorious, and political goods. It dismisses any thoughts on symbolic or cultural measures of societal, political or other discourses. Conversely, the critical approach raises the question: What is the political or socio-political paradigm in making news or managing the flux of news? It highlights issues of power and domination, and, of course, the question of systemic interests.[...]

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