Spin in the Media - the Media in a (self-)Spin?
The article focuses on the discussion of spin in the Danish media, especially during the 2005 election campaign, in which spin was a prominent issue amongst journalists. The main argument is that this is not primarily an expression of a professional, self-reflective con- sciousness regarding...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | Danish |
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Sammenslutningen af Medieforskere i Danmark (SMID)
2006-09-01
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| Series: | MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research |
| Online Access: | https://tidsskrift.dk/mediekultur/article/view/1317 |
| Summary: | The article focuses on the discussion of spin in the Danish media,
especially during the 2005 election campaign, in which spin was a
prominent issue amongst journalists. The main argument is that this
is not primarily an expression of a professional, self-reflective con-
sciousness regarding the shifts in the relationship between the media,
society and politics. Rather, it is an expression of a self-legitimizing
meta-discourse that might, however, fail to see the more structurally
rooted tendencies that spin is part of - a mediatization of politics -
presenting new perspectives and challenges for both politics and the
media. These perspectives appear to disintegrate in the comprehen-
sive but often one-dimensional and self-centered discourse of jour-
nalists and communication experts, wherein they proclaim every
political, communicative initiative as spin in the hunt for the disclosure
of political facade. |
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| ISSN: | 0900-9671 1901-9726 |