By Katrin Voltmer
This ebook examines how political conversation and the mass media have performed a primary position within the consolidation of rising democracies world wide. protecting a huge diversity of political and cultural contexts, together with jap and Southern Europe, Latin the United States, Asia and Africa, this new quantity investigates the issues and conflicts bobbing up within the strategy of constructing an autonomous media and aggressive politics in post-autocratic societies. contemplating the altering dynamic within the dating among political actors, the media and their viewers, the authors of this quantity handle the subsequent concerns: altering journalistic position perceptions and journalistic caliber the explanations and results of persisting instrumentalization of the media through political actors the function of the media in election campaigns the way the voters interpret political messages and the level to which the media impact political attitudes and electoral behaviour the function of the web in development a democratic public sphere This e-book can be of significant curiosity to all these learning and getting to know democracy and democratization, comparative politics, political conversation, journalism, media and the net.
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Tuchman, G. (1972) ‘Objectivity as strategic ritual. An examination of newsmen’s notions of objectivity’, American Journal of Sociology, 77:660–79. Voltmer, K. (2000) ‘Structures of diversity in press and broadcasting systems. The institutional context of public communication in Western Democracies’, WZB Discussion Papers, FSIII 00– 201, Berlin: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung. R. (1992) The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Part I The mass media and journalistic practice Normative dilemmas, professionalization and political instrumentalization 2 The role of the press in times of transition The building of the Spanish democracy (1975–78) Carlos Barrera and Ricardo Zugasti From the strictest political-institutional point of view, the transition to democracy which took place after the death of General Franco in November 1975 ended in December 1978, when the new democratic constitution was approved by referendum.
Diario 16 considered them to be ‘the first condition of democracy’ (‘Sí, pero más’, 27 January 1977:4). The general amnesty of October 1977 was another opportunity for the majority of the newspapers to declare, as did ABC, that, ‘from this moment forward, Mass media and political communication in new democracies 26 there cannot be allowed, for any reason, breaches of public disorder under the banner of amnesty’ (‘Por abrumadora mayoría, punto y aparte’, 15 October 1977:2). With the exception of El Alcázar, all the newspapers in our sample considered amnesty to be a necessary step along the road to national reconciliation.
Given their political orientation, it would seem logical that the three leftist newspapers would report this type of news more than those newspapers that were more closely aligned with power (the state-run Arriba and Pueblo, and the Christian Democratic Ya). 8 newspaper was more sympathetic, or the communist party, in which case the news was almost always negative and intended to harm the party’s public image. Journalistic coverage of the General Amnesty of 1977 One of the most representative events, if only for its symbolic nature, was the general amnesty of October 1977, a measure that looked to the past in an attempt to forget and to the future in order to build.