Description
"Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, national governments have established, appropriated, subsidized, and invested in news outlets, news infrastructure, and journalists to advance their own global and domestic agendas. Across the world, states are vying for narrative supremacy, using news as a geopolitical weapon. Expectations about the purpose of news is changing and many governments, including some democracies, are suppressing, stifling and marginalizing independent news media in favor of news organizations that serve the aims of the state. In News Wars: Martin Moore and Thomas Colley consider the rise and inner workings of such organizations such as Russia Today, the Chinese Global Television Network, as well as news organizations in India, Russia, Hungary, India, Brazil, Mexico, and China to analyze the processes through which the news has been instrumentalized to serve national purposes. The motives driving the nationalization of news can be both domestic and international, such as enhancing domestic stability, reducing scrutiny of government policy or advancing the state's interests abroad. The process is initiated chiefly by national governments, but it often takes place in collaboration with new or established national and commercial media organizations. The idea that news should serve national purposes is not new, however, as the authors demonstrate, the scale, nature, methods and scope of news nationalization is novel, and symptomatic of a contemporary media environment in which the norms and purposes of news is shifting with potentially dangerous geopolitical consequences and for the future of media in democracies."--Provided by publisher Provided by publisher.
