How the Quality Press Defines the World for Us: A Comparative Study of News Reporting on the Environment and Unemployment

To keep informed about political, economic or social events people will, in Western countries, turn to quality papers. The role played by those papers and mass media in general is crucial in the process of transmission of knowledge about the world. Particularly in a context marked by increasing uncertainty. Conditions of employment, the way we look at the environment has completely changed over the last decades creating a certain vagueness as to how to treat those issues. Media in such a context has the power to cut through uncertainties by setting up terms of the possible. But possibilities as expressed by the quality press are very much a function of values held by newspapers themselves. When newspapers belong to large media corporations those values are marked by priorities held by a corporate world, which are then presented as the only rational options possible.

Anahtar Kelimeler:

comparative study, possibilities, environment, unemployment

How the Quality Press Defines the World for Us: A Comparative Study of News Reporting on the Environment and Unemployment

To keep informed about political, economic or social events people will, in Western countries, turn to quality papers. The role played by those papers and mass media in general is crucial in the process of transmission of knowledge about the world. Particularly in a context marked by increasing uncertainty. Conditions of employment, the way we look at the environment has completely changed over the last decades creating a certain vagueness as to how to treat those issues. Media in such a context has the power to cut through uncertainties by setting up terms of the possible. But possibilities as expressed by the quality press are very much a function of values held by newspapers themselves. Whennewspapers belong to large media corporations those values are marked by priorities held by a corporate world, which are then presented as the only rational options possible.

Keywords:

Quality Press, representation, comparative studies, environment and unemployment,

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