Year: 2001
Type: article
Abstract: Generally claimed around the world, freedom of speech and press pluralism are considered as instruments of democratic measure. However in France where the journalist has in his heredity the literary tradition of ideologic debates, the diversity of opinions is lowering. Professional deontology is linked with rhetoric devices - linguistic process, resort to sociological inquiries - whose effects are often to refrein assesments or to produce them, according to “scientifically” set up items. Investigation, intuition, clearsightedness are overlapped by procedures which appear as screens in relationship to the public opinion. Even if the media are accused of manipulation, the endogeneous production of a commun thought is one of the reasons of their lack of influence.
Source: L Année sociologique
Author: André Akoun
Institution: Université Paris Cité
Language: French
Subfield: Communication
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2054621253