Vive L'indépendance
What “Independent” News Media Tells Us About The French News Media Field
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Sedel Julie
While emblematic newspapers are falling into industrial, bankers and businessmen’ hands, aside from State ownership, “independency” is being held as a unifying principle by a plurality of medias partly created against the field of mainstream media. With few employees and low budgets, some of these institutions defend a high conception of journalism by placing independency toward economic and political powers as central values. Through their capitalistic organization, this article proposes to open the “black box” of independency and to analyze its social uses in the French field of news. What role does these news media play in the journalistic field? How do they build their singularity and legitimacy? What do they reveal about French New media logic of sustainability?
Patterns of Communist Regime Propaganda in Present-time Polish Public Television
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session Magdalena Mateja
Did Poles get to understand the liberal democracy and ways of communicating within one? The Polish standards of freedom of speech and the government's attempts to change the media system into authoritarian as well as the political system have been lately discussed on the forum of EU and USA. At the same time, the future of Polish democracy and political communication have been under discussion in the country. This paper explores the features and mechanisms of communist propaganda in present-time Polish public television. The following are carried out for the paper: 1. An analysis of the media system in Poland regarding findings in its structure in terms of aspects of the post-communist organisation of mass media. 2. An examination the structure of "Wiadomości" as a production format and also an information genre. 3. Content analysis with the intention of finding elements of propaganda.
