Transparency, Public Relations and the Mass Media: Combating the Hidden Influences in News Coverage Worldwide...

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Jim Downs Jennifer Manion

Transparency, Public Relations and the Mass Media

Combating the Hidden Influences in News Coverage Worldwide

Jim Downs, Jennifer Manion

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English

Routledge
15 November 2016

History: theory & methods; History of the Americas; Social & cultural history

Series: Routledge Focus on Public Relations

This book is about media transparency and good-faith attempts of honesty by both the sources and the gate-keepers of news and other information that the mass media present as being unbiased. Specifically, this book provides a theoretical framework for understanding media transparency and its antithesis--media opacity--by analyzing extensive empirical data that the authors have collected from more than 60 countries throughout the world. The practice of purposeful media opacity, which exists to greater or lesser extents worldwide, is a powerful hidden influencer of the ostensibly impartial media gate-keepers whose publicly perceived role is to present news and other information based on these gate-keepers' perception of this information's truthfulness. Empirical data that the authors have collected globally illustrate the extent of media opacity practices worldwide and note its pervasiveness in specific regions and countries. The authors examine, from multiple perspectives, the complex question of whether media opacity should be categorically condemned as being universally inappropriate and unethical or whether it should be accepted--or at least tolerated--in some situations and environments.

Edited by: Jim Downs, Jennifer Manion
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9780415884242
ISBN 10: 0415884241
Series: Routledge Focus on Public Relations
Pages: 104
Publication Date: 15 November 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dr. Dean Kruckeberg, APR, Fellow PRSA, is a tenured full professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Dr. Katerina Tsetsura (2004, Ph.D. in Communication, Purdue U) is an assistant professor in the Gaylord College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Oklahoma.