PUBLIC LECTURE:
  More Powerful than Politicians?  The Media in Australia Today
		
Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:00 - Social Science Lecture Theatre, UWA
		
A public lecture by Sally Young, Associate Professor and Reader,  School
of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne.

For those who work in the news media, power is usually viewed as
something that happens outside of the walls of their media organisation.
“We scrutinise power,” journalists and news media organisations
frequently proclaim, but there is a strange failure to recognise that
the media, as a collective, are just as influential (and arguably, much
more so) than the hundreds of individual politicians sitting in
parliaments across Australia. And, while politicians are elected,
regularly scrutinised by journalists (and others) and held to account at
the ballot box at elections, none of these mechanisms apply to media
organisations or to their reporters.

In Australia today, we know quite a lot about politicians and how they
govern but we still know worryingly little about the media and how they
operate. In this lecture, Dr Young will argue that this is an urgent
problem and that, of all the much-lamented problems with media
reporting, the biggest is that the media do a poor job of scrutinising
and reporting on their own role. She will look at this in terms of an
interesting paradox. How is it that news journalism in Australia is said
to currently be in ‘crisis’ - with declining revenues/ratings, job
losses and a broken business model – yet, as a collective, the
Australian media remain so powerful?

Cost: This is a free public lecture, RSVP to ias@uwa.edu.au.
		
URL: http://www.ias.uwa.edu.au/lectures/young
		
For more information:
  Institute of Advanced Studies
  ias@uwa.edu.au
  6488 1340

Starts       : Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:00
Ends         : Thu, 16 Aug 2012 19:00
		
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