Media Performance, Agenda Building, and Democratization in East Africa

Kalyango, Yusuf; Eckler, Petya

doi:10.1080/23808985.2010.11679105

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“…The inverse was true for journalists from Kenya-they perceived the role to "serve as a critic of government" most important of the three countries and to "support official policies to bring about prosperity and development" and to "convey a positive image of political and business leadership" the least important. Such findings lend support to previous work (Harwood et al, 2018;Kalyango and Eckler, 2010;Kimumwe, 2014;Lugalambi and Tabaire, 2010;Obonyo, 2003;Reporters Without Borders, 2019Sobel Cohen and McIntyre, 2020) pointing to more press freedom, and the ability to criticize public officials, in Kenya than in Uganda and Rwanda, due to differing political structures in place.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 87%

Journalistic role orientations in Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya

McIntyre

Sobel

2022

International Communication Gazette

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This study examines how journalists in Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya perceive their journalistic role orientations in light of the countries’ differing political systems, Rwanda representing the nation with the most restrictive political system, Uganda sitting in the middle and Kenya illustrating the nation that is home to the least restrictive political system. Data were analyzed from a comparative, quantitative online survey completed by 424 journalists from the three East African nations. Overall, the journalistic role orientations that emerged in each country align with the freedoms afforded by the political system in each country, revealing a trend that journalists in non-Western countries lean toward more interventionist roles (at times to the point of actively supporting their government), and journalists in countries with less restrictive political systems lean toward more adversarial roles (keeping their government in check).

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 87%

Journalistic role orientations in Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya

McIntyre

Sobel

2022

International Communication Gazette

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“…This model was prominent during the 24-year reign of former President Daniel Moi—between 1978 and 2002. Like other African authoritarian regimes, Moi used the media as a weapon to propagate his political mission—creating an unfavorable environment that constrained the media freedoms (Kalyango, 2011). The advocacy-protest tradition is grounded in enlightenment notions of human rationality, popular sovereignty, and free marketplace of ideas (Heath, 1997).…”

Section: The Kenya Newspapers Industrymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Kenya “high-octane” devolution politics: Comparing predictors of governors and senators coverage in national press

Ireri

Ochieng

2022

Newspaper Research Journal

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This research content analyzes 2,794 news articles in four leading newspapers to compare variables that predicted the coverage of Kenya governors and senators between 2013 and 2017—within the theoretical perspectives of coverage based on “news values” and “mirror of political reality.” Findings show the strongest predictors for governors’ coverage are commenting on devolution and corruption topics, while senators’ visibility is determined by criticizing national government—all under “mirror of political reality” reporting.

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“…The media, known as the 'fourth estate' in democracies, will help democracy to function with its all institutions if they can undertake their responsibilities in a free manner. These freedoms are not only related to the governmental, political or or other external elements but also are about the internal media subjects such as ownership and editorial independency (Kalyango and Eckler, 2010).…”

Section: Media and Democracy: A Compulsory Togetherness?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Medya, Siyaset ve Demokrasi: Eleştirel Bir Perspektif

Geçer¹

2018

Erciyes İletişim Dergisi

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This article, mostly through a theoretical background, focuses on general debates of democracy, media and politics. Giving insights regarding overall perspectives of democracy, media-democracy and politics relationship, the study tries to demonstrate the view of this interaction and how media should function in a democratic development. At the end, again to have a clearer point of view, this article tackles construction of the news stories as being matter of structuring agendabuilding, public opinion and political perspectives through the news media. Here particularly media and democracy relationship will be tried to be examined giving the importance of the media courses for democracy to function in a proper way. While examining the press and politics linkage as being the main actors to set up the daily agenda and a social consensus; the role of the media in shaping the public opinion and the ideology both through external or/and internal (institutional) motives have been tried to be discussed to better debate the media problems and examine their relationship with the politics especially in Turkey.

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Media Performance, Agenda Building, and Democratization in East Africa

Cited by 7 publications

References 11 publications

Journalistic role orientations in Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya

Journalistic role orientations in Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya

The Kenya “high-octane” devolution politics: Comparing predictors of governors and senators coverage in national press

Medya, Siyaset ve Demokrasi: Eleştirel Bir Perspektif

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