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Managing the Public Sphere: Journalistic Construction of the Great Globalization Debate

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The Journal of Communication, 54 (3): 437--455 (2004)
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2466.2004.tb02638.x

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* W. Lance Bennett11W. Lance Bennett is professor of political science and Ruddick C. Lawrence professor of communication at the University of Washington., * Victor W. Pickard22Victor Pickard is a graduate student at the Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign., * David P. Iozzi33David Iozzi is an undergraduate and Taso Lagos is a graduate student in communication at the University of Washington., * Carl L. Schroeder44Carl Schroeder graduated in political science from the University of Washington, and C. Evans Caswell is a graduate student in the Department of Communication, Loyola University, New Orleans, * Taso Lagos33David Iozzi is an undergraduate and Taso Lagos is a graduate student in communication at the University of Washington., and * C. Evans Caswell44Carl Schroeder graduated in political science from the University of Washington, and C. Evans Caswell is a graduate student in the Department of Communication, Loyola University, New Orleans * 1W. Lance Bennett is professor of political science and Ruddick C. Lawrence professor of communication at the University of Washington. 2Victor Pickard is a graduate student at the Institute of Communications Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. 3David Iozzi is an undergraduate and Taso Lagos is a graduate student in communication at the University of Washington. 4Carl Schroeder graduated in political science from the University of Washington, and C. Evans Caswell is a graduate student in the Department of Communication, Loyola University, New Orleans Correspondence should be addressed to W. Lance Bennett, Department of Communication, Box 353740, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195; lbennett@u.washington.edu Abstract There is little consensus on what constitutes open, deliberative media discourse. We offer a simple, measurable, and comparative model based on 3 aspects of source and issue construction in news accounts: access, recognition, and responsiveness. The model is applied to coverage of 2001–2003 World Economic Forum (WEF) meetings and protests against the organization's role in global economic policies. Both demonstrators and WEF participants were granted news access, but WEF actors were recognized more formally and given greater input in news content, including ownership claims to many activist issue positions. Journalistic deference to the WEF communication agenda limited mutual responsiveness. The journalistic process systematically managed the debate about globalization on terms that favored elites over citizen-activists.

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