Adversary Vs. Developmental Journalism: Indian Mass Media At the Crossroads

Rampal, Kuldip R.

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“…Singapore and other Asian nations have been criticized for using their version of the development model to reinforce government control and public obedience (Gunaratne, 2005). Development journalism's proponents claim it does not necessarily translate to reporting on leaders, policies, and projects favorably, but rather on giving priority to development news, such as helping the public see solutions to development problems, or even critically examining development policies and projects (Kelly & Ramaprasad, 2003;Rampal, 1984). Reviewing twentieth-century Asian journalism, Richstad (2000) pointed out that development journalism does not necessarily mean government control of media, but rather, constructive co-operation of government and media.…”

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Perpetual development journalism? Balance and framing in the 2006 Singapore election coverage

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Yee

Juan

et al. 2008

Asian Journal of Communication

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This study sought to determine if Singapore's press model has evolved beyond the development model to take on characteristics of other press models. It examined balance and framing in election coverage in the Straits Times, Singapore's dominant English newspaper, over 16 days before the 2006 Singapore General Election. As expected under the development model, and contrary to expectations under the social responsibility model, we found coverage of the competing parties lacked balance, as indicated by more coverage with a more favorable tone for the ruling People's Action Party. In framing, we found game frames predominated over issue frames, as predicted by media intrusion theory, in which commercial media favor competitive aspects of campaigns as a result of following commercial journalistic values. This finding contradicts the expectation that development journalism would likely have more issue frames, since it emphasizes issues and policies, and suggests that some commercial journalistic imperatives outweigh development model imperatives in the Singapore press.

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Perpetual development journalism? Balance and framing in the 2006 Singapore election coverage

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Yee

Juan

et al. 2008

Asian Journal of Communication

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“…The western interpretation was that journalism of this type was an attempt by authoritarian governments to provide only a positive picture of the country and particularly of its leaders and their development efforts (Sussman, 1981) so as to continue to remain in power. The developing world's perspective was that the media had an important role in aiding the government's development efforts (Rampal, 1984;Aggarwala, 1977), and could do this critically.…”

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Reporting the News from the World's Rooftop

Ramaprasad¹,

Kelly²

2003

Gazette (Leiden, Netherlands)

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Modeled partly after Weaver and Wilhoit's study of the American journalist, this study provides a profile of Nepalese journalists at an interesting time in Nepal's history, when democracy has been restored and media freedom has been prevalent for almost a decade. The profile covers demographic, work-related and attitudinal variables from a convenience sample of 132 journalists in Kathmandu and Pokhara representing all the major newspapers and radio stations and the government television station. The questionnaire was borrowed from an earlier study carried out in post-independence Tanzania because of its fit to Nepal's media context. A quantitative analysis of the roles the journalists perceived for themselves revealed four factors: development journalism (positive coverage of leaders, country, events); citizen education (inform and educate public on political matters); public advocate (investigate leaders and give voice to people); and culture (entertain, provide cultural fare). Another interpretation of development journalism (focus on development projects and welfare of diverse oppressed groups) emerged as a role in answers to an open-ended question about other functions of the press. As Nepalese society is in transition from a monarchy with a government-controlled press that defined a role for the media in national development to a multi-party democracy with a free press, its journalists are balancing the roles that they have been socialized in with those of a free press.

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“…Ramaprasad and Kelly (2003) suggested a list of functions for possible use in journalist surveys in developing countries; they included roles that represent both the western and developing world perspective on development news roles. According to proponents of development journalism, mostly Third World governments and some of its journalists, development journalism does not equal positive coverage and protocol news but objective and prioritized coverage of development policy and programs (Rampal, 1984). Critics mostly from the developed world insist that development journalism is a euphemism for government control of the media to project a positive image and hide government corruption (Sussman, 1981).…”

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Functions of Egyptian Journalists

Ramaprasad

Hamdy

2006

International Communication Gazette

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This study reports on Egyptian journalists’ rating of various journalistic functions in terms of both importance and ability to perform these functions. The functions, rated for importance, coalesced into four factors, Sustain Democracy, Support Arabism/Values, Support Government and Provide Entertainment. Egyptian journalists gave prime importance to supporting Arabism/values and also performed this function most often. They considered democracy-sustaining functions second in importance, but were able to perform them least often, at about the average level. For all function factors, perceived importance was discrepant with actual amount of performance, with the latter always being lower. The study’s contribution lies in (1) the quantitative benchmarks it establishes for Egyptian journalism practice, (2) its inclusion of functions specific to Egyptian society and press as culled from the literature and (3) its finding of the prime placement by Egyptian journalists of the function support for the Palestinian cause in terms of both importance of the function and how often they performed it. This finding may be useful in creating an understanding in the non-western world of how critical this issue is to the press and possibly therefore to the Egyptian public.

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Adversary Vs. Developmental Journalism: Indian Mass Media At the Crossroads

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Perpetual development journalism? Balance and framing in the 2006 Singapore election coverage

Perpetual development journalism? Balance and framing in the 2006 Singapore election coverage

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