Boundary Maintenance and Interloper Media Reaction

Differentiating between journalism's discursive enforcement processes

Bibliographic Data

ID7512486
AuthorsScott A Eldridge (0000-0002-2184-1509, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume15
Issue1
Pages1-16
Publication date2013-04-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournalism Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1461-670X • E-ISSN: 1469-9699
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/1461670x.2013.791077
OpenAlexW1737458901
LanguageEN
Citations received62
References cited18

In his fictional story “The Interlopers”, Saki tells of two men fighting over the rights to a wooded hunting land. While both have long claimed the right to the land, one holds the legal right and the other—the interloper—claims to belong (Saki 1930). This story forms the allegorical locus of this paper, examining the way a self-defined in-group of traditional journalism protects its perceived professional identity against entities—Interloper Media—who claim belonging. This is achieved through distinct processes that echo but diverge from traditional boundary maintenance. This paper argues subtle and nuanced language in news texts referring to WikiLeaks serves to invalidate WikiLeaks' extant and persistent claims of “being” journalism. These processes differ from boundary maintenance processes related to phone hacking, which serve as inwardly focused self-policing of the profession

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