«Pressreleasm» in the local press: journalistic material context and features of Odessa media messages perception

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«Pressreleasm» in the local press: journalistic material context and features of Odessa media messages perception

Journal Title: Діалог: медіа-студії - Year 2016, Vol 0, Issue 22

Abstract

Publications with the only press-release as a source are the main problem of the local press, it concerns not only internet-media, but print media as well, despite journalists of weekly papers have enough time for their own information search and gathering (M. Haler). The reasons of so called “pressreleasm”, a number of publications, which reprint press-releases are in the center of scientists’attention, however, there is lack of research about such publications perception. Such materials influence at audience is studied in the article, for this aim 118 respondents were interviewed. The specifics of publications, which contained “pressreleasm”, and publications with wider context (with bigger number of sources) was discovered. It was figured out that materials with “pressreleasm” influence news heroes detection, so responsibility decision is made within this circle. So the main effect of “pressreleasm” is not in framing, there was no connection between frames, used in a press-release, and responsibility perception, but attention direction to those figures who from press-release author’s point of view must be important during decision-making. So readers’ position forming depends on background presence in journalistic material (primarily commentaries of other important sources). Having read a qualitative publication (with sufficient number of sources), audience more likely perceives a covered problem in the context of civic society needs. Journalists’ public also considers information published in the article adequate and usually doesn’t need details (even if a standard of completeness was ignored by an author), relatively decision-making is set on the basis of that information which was published in the newspaper text. Also the audience does not demonstrate critical attitude towards professional standards violations by journalists. The standard of facts and comments separation is recognized better, the standard of completeness is not in the center of readers’ attention. As a result connection between theories of agenda setting and framing was found. According to the first theory readers consider heroes mentioned in journalists’ texts as significant. And frames, used by those heroes would be more powerful if there were lack of the context in the journalists’ text.

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Nataliia Steblyna

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