En "Parliamentary Affairs" Nº57-2004,196-208
This article argues that ‘going public’—engagement in the mediation of public image-is a basic requirement of contemporary politics in post-industrial democracies. This is no less true of Spain. Spanish politicians have been helped in managing both their public and private visibility by the peculiar characteristics of the Spanish media industry. The combination of relics of state paternalism in the application of communication policy, a weak and compliant state broadcaster together with high levels of television and magazine consumption and low newspaper readership rates means that government politicians have a broadly favourable media environment in which to operate. Legal protection of privacy but, more importantly, media and social culture also contribute to a climate in which intrusive coverage of sexual aspects of a politician's private life is discouraged. The article notes the growing trend for politicians to use the more tabloid, popular media as vehicles for image-making. It also assesses how the media converted politics into soap-opera as an extraordinary set of events unfolded at Marbella's city council in summer 2003.
jueves, 21 de febrero de 2008
El poder de los medios en los escándalos políticos: la fuerza simbólica de la noticia icono
En "Anàlisi" Nº32-2005 163-178
domingo, 17 de febrero de 2008
A Scribbling Tribe: Reporting political scandal in Britain and Spain
En "Journalism : Theory, Practice and Criticism", 2006; 7 (4)
Comparative research is uniquely able to address theoretical questions about the relationship between journalism and political and cultural contexts. This study takes the reporting of political scandal as the entry-point to an analysis of the practice of investigative reporting in Britain and Spain in the 1990s and its status as a litmus test for a Fourth Estate understanding of the press’ role. Using interview and documentary data, the research explores journalists’ backgrounds, their assumptions about methods, relationships to sources and their perception of the public, political and peer response to their work. Journalists’ views of the rationale for reporting political scandal are also explored. The analysis shows that there are a number of differences between the two groups of journalists but also that they are bound far more by common assumptions about the practices and purposes of reporting political scandal, which, taken together, provide a challenge to certain aspects of the production study research tradition and also evidence for the enduring influence of Fourth Estate understandings of the role of journalism across national contexts.
Comparative research is uniquely able to address theoretical questions about the relationship between journalism and political and cultural contexts. This study takes the reporting of political scandal as the entry-point to an analysis of the practice of investigative reporting in Britain and Spain in the 1990s and its status as a litmus test for a Fourth Estate understanding of the press’ role. Using interview and documentary data, the research explores journalists’ backgrounds, their assumptions about methods, relationships to sources and their perception of the public, political and peer response to their work. Journalists’ views of the rationale for reporting political scandal are also explored. The analysis shows that there are a number of differences between the two groups of journalists but also that they are bound far more by common assumptions about the practices and purposes of reporting political scandal, which, taken together, provide a challenge to certain aspects of the production study research tradition and also evidence for the enduring influence of Fourth Estate understandings of the role of journalism across national contexts.
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