WHAT KIND OF COMMODITY IS NEWS

被引：32

作者：

MCMANUS, JH

机构：

来源：

COMMUNICATION RESEARCH | 1992年 / 19卷 / 06期

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D O I：

10.1177/009365092019006007

中图分类号：

G2 [信息与知识传播];

学科分类号：

05 ; 0503 ;

摘要：

U.S. news organizations, both print and broadcast, are moving from practices in which "professional" journalists define what is newsworthy toward letting the market decide. The trend has generated much debate, but little from a theoretical perspective. This article seeks to provide some conceptual tools for thinking about how news will fare as a market-driven product. The analysis concludes that those who argue that market forces will improve journalism have not carefully examined the nature of news with market theory-microeconomics. In fact, microeconomic theory suggests that commodities like news are likely to engender opportunism on the part of news organizations.

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页码：787 / 805

页数：19