Local TV News Archives as a Public Good
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12446648 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J H Snider (0000-0001-5460-3972, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 111-117 |
| Publication date | 2000-03-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1081-180X • E-ISSN: 1531-328X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1081180x00005002010 |
| OpenAlex | W2023637667 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
It is well established that political information shares the characteristics of a public good (Downs 1957; Popkin 1991). People won’t acquire the socially optimal amount of political information because they can’t reap the full benefit of their investment. Recognizing that a well-informed populace is essential to a healthy democracy, the government grants major media substantial public sub-sidies and special legal protections (Cook 1998). In return, the media take on the costs of monitoring the government that individual members of the public are unwilling and unable to bear. Analogously, a role of the political communication scholar is to keep the media accountable to the public. But just as the media have great difficulty keeping the government accountable without accessible and affordable govern-ment records, political communication scholars have the same difficulty in re-gard to the media without accessible and affordable media records. Both government archives (e.g., the National Archives) and news archives are forms of political information vital to keeping democratic intermediaries
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| Citations per year | 0.04 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2001 - 2001 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |