Pelejo, Meldy (1990) The political economy of development news: Analysing news coverage under Aquino. Master of Arts thesis, Dublin City University.
Abstract
Analysis of development news research up to the present
reveals that the field has not progressed from studying
development messages' effects to a broader outlook on media
and the structures in which they operate. For this reason,
the present study has strived to account for how the
political and socio-economic context of Philippine society
influences the operation of a governmental journalism
policy.
This study set out to do two things. Firstly, it aimed
to clarify the widespread idea that the use of communication
for development purposes is not unlimited. Information
dissemination - the objective of development news - is not
the sole solution to development problems. Hence, the study
of development news cannot be confined to correlating the
amount of development content in the mass media with the
level of development achieved within a certain period as
most previous development news studies have done.
This study aims to show that such correlations are futile
unless seen within the context of the political economy of
the media. News, especially in the press, is governed by
policies that are influenced by the socio-political
situation of the society in which it is produced.
Secondly, by focusing the analysis on the socioeconomic
and political context in which news restrictions
under Aquino emerged, the study can point out parallelisms between Marcos' and Aquino's news policy. The study of
communication and development, in particular, development
news can then move from the linear model of communication to
the political economy model.
As a first step, the author examines the early theories
on communication and development in order to present an
overview of the underlying principles in many development
communication programmes. Chapter two discusses cases or
illustrations of the application of the theories of media
and development. The chapter also points out the shortfall
of these projects which the author attributes to seeing
information dissemination as the solution to development
problems. Chapter three then deals with the concept of
development journalism, and the misunderstanding surrounding
the concept. In this chapter, the author points out that
the emphasis placed on content analysis has led to the
failure to see development news as a policy arising from the
immediate socio-political context of society in which media
operate. Chapter four looks at the case of the Philippines
under Marcos and how developmental journalism was the policy
that oriented the practice of journalism during this period.
The last chapter then looks at the Philippine press under
Aquino and strives to assess the use of the same policy of
governmental journalism. The study strives to achieve this
through the use of qualitative analysis of news coverage of
issues surrounding the insurgency, the land reform and the
US military bases, combined with contextualisation of the
content analysed.
Metadata
Item Type: | Thesis (Master of Arts) |
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Date of Award: | 1990 |
Refereed: | No |
Supervisor(s): | Corcoran, Farrel |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Development news; News reporting |
Subjects: | Social Sciences > Journalism Social Sciences > Communication Social Sciences > Political science |
DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Communications |
Use License: | This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. View License |
ID Code: | 19272 |
Deposited On: | 18 Sep 2013 13:19 by Celine Campbell . Last Modified 18 Sep 2013 13:19 |
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