| Title |
Politikai kaip naujienų šaltinis: nepilnamečių apsaugos įstatymo priėmimo atvejis / |
| Translation of Title |
Politicians as a source of news: the case of adopting thel aw on minors’ protection. |
| Authors |
Taraskevičius, Adomas |
| DOI |
10.15388/Im.2012.0.3109 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Informacijos mokslai / Vilniaus universitetas.. Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. 2012, t. 59, p. 117-131.. ISSN 1392-0561 |
| Abstract [eng] |
The media are one of the basic components of communication among the elements of democratic society. By informing the audience, the media ensure that citizens in cases like voting will make right decisions, and the authorities and politicians will be careful about their own actions in order to avoid criticism or negative attitudes of society or to become more popular and to get into government structures. On the other hand, by doing so as everybody else and just being part of the whole, governments and politicians are not interesting for the media. As a result, these two groups must always think how to attract attention to themselves in the endless stream of information. The purpose of this article is to show the existence of politicians’ desire to construct the media agenda (to be the source of news) while adopting the Law on Minors’ Protection against Detrimental Effects of Public Information. The article also discusses the relationship between politicians and the media, the interdependence between politicians and the media. The author also shows how politicians try to atract the media by adopting laws and how the length and frequency of politicians’ speeches during the reading of a particular law can attract the attention of the media and thus of the public. |
| Published |
Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
Lithuanian |
| Publication date |
2012 |
