A few wealthy news organizations dominate the framing of foreign news
Evidence
What needs to be said about quantitative aspects of the news as interpretation can be said straightforwardly. The widest distribution and therefore the strongest impact is made by a handful of organizations: two or three wire services, three television networks, CNN, half a dozen daily newspapers, two (or perhaps three) weekly news magazines. It is only necessary to mention a few names for the point to be made: CBS, Time, the New York Times, AP. Among them they reach more people, make a deeper impression, get more of a certain kind of news across than do other smaller, less wealthy news-distributing agencies. What this means as far as foreign news is concerned is obvious: Such corporations have more on-the-spot reporters than others, and therefore their reporters furnish the basis for what participating newspapers, local television stations, and radio stations distribute to their immediate clientele. This sheer mass and density of foreign-news reporting usually means greater authority and hence more frequent citation by people using the news, so that a New York Times or CBS report will have credibility by virtue of its source, its institutional prestige, its frequency (daily, hourly, etc.), its air of expertise and experience. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 188
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to the structural-concentration argument in Communication as Culture — media power as inverting the public sphere. — connects to: The New York Times rose by serving a niche market of wealthy readers — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 209
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