TY - JOUR
T1 - Manufacturing foreign news from afar
T2 - Views from an editor’s desk
AU - Bergman, Tabe
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2024 Intellect Ltd.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky’s propaganda model, one of the major scholarly contributions to the understanding of – especially foreign – news produced by the US media, consists of trenchant analysis of media industries and volumes of media content, while mostly ignoring an important intermediate step: what happens in the newsroom. This article aims to fill in those blanks with a critical reflection informed by academic literature on the author’s time working as a global news editor with two news agencies, including the main American one, the Associated Press. Specifically, the article aims to clarify and expand on three concepts related to journalistic practices that get short shrift in the propaganda model: journalists’ individual responsibility for the product they produce, their intent and their conformity to organizational imperatives, thereby as much as possi-ble making understandable how and why the propaganda model works on the ground.
AB - Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky’s propaganda model, one of the major scholarly contributions to the understanding of – especially foreign – news produced by the US media, consists of trenchant analysis of media industries and volumes of media content, while mostly ignoring an important intermediate step: what happens in the newsroom. This article aims to fill in those blanks with a critical reflection informed by academic literature on the author’s time working as a global news editor with two news agencies, including the main American one, the Associated Press. Specifically, the article aims to clarify and expand on three concepts related to journalistic practices that get short shrift in the propaganda model: journalists’ individual responsibility for the product they produce, their intent and their conformity to organizational imperatives, thereby as much as possi-ble making understandable how and why the propaganda model works on the ground.
KW - Associated Press
KW - journalism
KW - newsroom
KW - Noam Chomsky
KW - Novum Nieuws
KW - propaganda model
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85193843421&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1386/ajms_00078_1
DO - 10.1386/ajms_00078_1
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85193843421
SN - 2001-0818
VL - 13
SP - 49
EP - 65
JO - Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies
JF - Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies
IS - 1
ER -