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- Title
NATIONAL NEWS MEDIA FACING THE CHALLENGE OF PATRIOTISM IN WAR TIME.
- Authors
KARAMETI, Aurora
- Abstract
National news media, no matter traditional or new one, play a significant role at the information war that usually goes on along with the armed conflicts. This paper pays a special attention to the concept of patriotism within the national media newsrooms in time of war, a concept that in practice may influence the media agenda, the way news is written and reported and may also influence the whole information war. The theme of war in Ukraine currently is placed at the top of mainstream news media agenda. The biggest of them have sent their reporters in the ground but most of world media rely most of the time on the news coming from global news agencies. Ukrainian journalists are doing their part in informing readers around the world through the English language media publishing. News come from Russian side media as well. This news flow contains a variety of angles. Each party involved in war, is fighting its information battle. The focus of this paper is the Ukrainian newest news media outlet, The Kyiv Independent, an online newspaper, its team and the example of journalism they are doing in time of war in their invaded country. Does this news media and its journalists succeed to handle their position of belonging to a nation under fire and at the same time doing their job and accomplishing their mission of watch-dogs even in tough times but not being blamed as bad or pseudo-patriots? How do they manage this equilibrium between professionalism and patriotism? In order to inquire about those issues and find answers for these research questions, the media agenda setting theory and the content analyses research method are used in this study to analyze the content published by The Kyiv Independent. Results show a strong determination this newspaper has to do journalism, not partisanship.
- Subjects
UKRAINE; WAR; PATRIOTISM; ELECTRONIC newspapers; NEWS agencies; RESEARCH questions
- Publication
Vizione, 2023, Issue 40, p245
- ISSN
1409-8962
- Publication type
Article