Journalism as Reason-Giving: Deliberative Democracy, Institutional Accountability, and the News Media's Mission

Deliberative Qualities of Generic News Frames: Assessing the Democratic Value of Strategic Game and Contestation Framing in Election Campaign Coverage

“…In recent years, these deliberative features of news discourse have been operationalized for empirical study in varying fashion (e.g., Bennett et al, 2004;Ettema, 2007;Ferree, Gamson, Gerhards, & Rucht, 2002;Graham & Witschge, 2003;Maia, 2009;Rohlinger, 2007;Wessler, 2008). Selecting criteria against which to judge the quality of media content is an often neglected exercise that implicates theoretical decisions that need to be made carefully.…”

Making democratic contestation possible: public deliberation and mass media regulation

“…Ethical rules embedded in journalistic habits, codes of deontology, international or national professional guidelines, and alternative standards put forward by social movements such as public journalism (Dzur 2002), although not binding and oftentimes ignored, play an actual role in media practice and constitute a powerful, if insufficient, source of regulation. The practice of demanding reasons from political institutions and holding them accordingly accountable -something that is required to unearth a basis for contestation -is at the core of journalism, conceived not only in its role of providing information, but also in its role of enhancing deliberation (Ettema 2007).…”

Los niveles de coincidencias temáticas en editoriales de cinco diarios chilenos de referencia en un contexto de concentración de la propiedad de los medios

“…Los estudios destacan el perjuicio de un sistema de medios y de contenidos ho mogéneos porque, sintetiza Ettema (2007), el periodismo debe aportar a una demo cracia deliberativa, que Gutmann y Thompson (2004: 7) definen como "una forma de gobierno en el cual ciudadanos libres e iguales (y sus representantes) justifican deci siones en un proceso en que se dan razones que son aceptables para ambas partes y ge neralmente accesibles, con el fin de alcanzar conclusiones que todos deben cumplir en el presente pero con apertura al diálogo en el futuro". Más que la difusión de datos, importan el empoderamiento ciudadano con un debate crítico y constructivo, la li bertad y la posibilidad de autogobernarse (Lasch, 1995).…”