Resumen

CALIFANO, Bernadette. Mass Media, News, and their Influence over the Political System. Rev. mex. opinión pública [online]. 2015, n.19, pp.61-78. ISSN 2448-4911.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rmop.2015.02.001.

This article sets out to systematize several theoretical frameworks in order to study the relationship between mass media and the political system. Besides their role in-between events and audiences, the starting point of this paper is that mass media are business actors with a crucial role in the political system. On their daily work, they construct news by including, excluding and organizing events hierarchically in journalistic agendas. These tasks are accomplished not just following news values criteria but also strategies designed to obtain certain political-economic goals. By publishing current political events, and maintaining negotiations and agreements with politicians outside the formal democratic process, they are capable to influence over the public policy-making process.

Palabras llave : Political actors; mass media; news; public policies; political system.

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