Introduction: This paper analyses the pressures that journalism has exerted or attempted to exert from politics. Methodology: The study uses a combination of qualitative methodologies, such as focus groups discussion, and quantitative ones, such as surveys of journalists; both methodologies allows to know how politics influence journalists and how it can limit media instruments of accountability. Results: this study presents the results of an investigation that shows that journalists and citizens share the perception that political influence is one of the main assumptions that affect the development of good journalism. Discussion/conclusion: Although journalists recognize political and government pressures, the study concludes that they do not give in or feel responsible to political parties or governments. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Cruz-Álvarez, Jesús and Suárez-Villegas, Juan-Carlos
Subjects
*TECHNOLOGY & ethics, *DIGITAL communications, *JOURNALISM, *SOCIAL networks, *PUBLIC opinion, *ACCESS to information, *FREEDOM of information, *COMPUTER network resources
Abstract
The journalism profession is facing a new digital communication environment in which traditional information flows, emanating from the media to the general public unidirectionally, are reversed under the new channels of participation and influence that audiences, which are active and dynamic on the network, use to take part in shaping public opinion. In this paper we describe and analyze some of the citizens' information practices and the ethical dilemmas posed about journalism and the right to information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]