Farewell Old Friend or Bye-Bye Bully Boy? The Closure of a 'Media Icon' and Challenging the 'Free Press' Paradigm

Bibliographic Data

ID5904036
AuthorsMichael Bromley, Regan Neal
Year2009
Volume132
Issue1
Pages29-41
Publication date2009-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedia International Australia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1329-878X • E-ISSN: 2200-467X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1329878x0913200105
OpenAlexW1496201621
LanguageEN
References cited15

The closure of The Bulletin magazine was widely reported and commented on by journalists and others in the media who sought to apportion blame for this rupture, to explain it as an aberration and to reassert the norm of the 'free' press and the Fourth Estate. In the past, such paradigm repair would have gone unchallenged as those in the media controlled what appeared there. With the advent of accessible digital information and communication technologies, however, members of the public are encouraged to have their say. This study compared the ways in which journalists and their sources and members of the public framed the closure of The Bulletin. In the era of dialogic mediated communications, journalists and others in the media can no longer assume that contrary voices will be silenced

Blame · Dialogic · Fourth Estate · Icon · Journalism · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Computer Science · Law · Media Studies and Communication · Psychology · Public Relations and Crisis Communication · Social Media and Politics · Social Psychology

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