Circling the Wagons Containing the Downing Street Memo Story's Impact in America

被引：8

作者：

Bicket, Douglas ^{[1
]}

Wall, Melissa ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] St John Fisher Coll, Dept Commun Journalism, Box 123, Rochester, NY 14618 USA

[2] Calif State Univ Northridge, Dept Journalism, Northridge, CA 91330 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION INQUIRY | 2007年 / 31卷 / 03期

关键词：

news media; journalism; news repair; boundary maintenance; Britain;

D O I：

10.1177/0196859907301085

中图分类号：

G2 [信息与知识传播];

学科分类号：

05 ; 0503 ;

摘要：

Within the context of a sharp rise in Americans' access to foreign news, especially since September 11, 2001, this article examines the limits of effectiveness of such foreign news influences in influencing the public debate on major policy issues within the United States. With the focus on a major U.K.-originated news story-the "Downing Street Memo" and subsequent leaked U.K. government documents-the article applies and expands the concepts of boundary maintenance and news repair beyond the domestic news realm and considers these as mechanisms by which the U.S. mainstream news media can still contain and limit the effectiveness of such stories in the U.S. public sphere. This study shows that although the rise of the Internet provides substantial new openings for important foreign-originated news stories in the United States, U.S. news media retain some ability to close down stories perceived as threats to their journalistic credibility.

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页码：206 / 221

页数：16

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