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Contexts of the Media

Political context

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Overview

Regulation and press freedom, impartiality, elections, influence without censorship, and propaganda.

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Key term

What does political context cover?

Evaluation

How can government influence media without direct censorship?

Key term

What is propaganda?

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  1. 1

    What does political context mean in the analysis of media?

    Model answer

    The structure of power and government within which a product is made, including law, regulation, party politics and the issues under public debate at the time.

  2. 2

    How does regulation form part of the political context of a media product?

    Model answer

    Because rules on ownership, content and impartiality are set through political processes, so what producers may lawfully make and broadcast is politically determined.

  3. 3

    Why is press freedom a political question rather than only a legal one?

    Model answer

    Because the extent to which journalists may publish without restriction is decided through political argument about the balance between accountability, privacy and state interest.

  4. 4

    How can a media product take a political position without addressing politics directly?

    Model answer

    Through what it treats as normal, whose perspective it adopts and which outcomes it presents as desirable, all of which carry political implications without being stated as argument.

  5. 5

    What is meant by impartiality as a requirement in UK broadcast news?

    Model answer

    The obligation to present significant views on matters of political controversy with due weight, rather than advocating a position, which applies to broadcasters but not to the press.

  6. 6

    Why are newspapers permitted to take political positions when broadcasters are not?

    Model answer

    Because the press is regulated separately and is expected to be plural in its range of views, whereas broadcasting was regulated as a scarce public resource reaching audiences in common.

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