The practice of self-regulation of three satellite news channels from the perspective of P. Bourdieu’s view of social field – The case study of reporting double homicide in New Taipei City’s Bali District
Date Issued
2014
Date
2014
Author(s)
Kuo, Chih-Jung
Abstract
This thesis focuses on the problems of trial by media and media self-regulation in the television news of “double homicide in New Taipei City’s Bali District.” Since 2006, the Satellite Television Broadcasting Association (STBA) has established crime reporting regulations, and some satellite television channels have also constructed their own ethics committees since 2011. However, some channels still violate the regulations while reporting the double murder case.
This thesis inspects the practice of self-regulation from the perspective of P. Bourdieu’s social field theory. The factors that affect the journalistic field are distinction, capital, journalistic professionalism, news sources, competitions among TV channels, TV ratings, and journalistic self-regulation which contain aspects of law, heteronomy, and autonomy.
The methods used in this thesis are content analysis of the news videos and interview surveys with journalists, members of the ethic committees of National Communications Commission (NCC), STBA and three channels (ETTV, CTI, TVBS). The results show that the news videos have the problems of trial by media, exceeding amount of crime news, sensationalization and dramatization. Due to the confidentiality of investigations, the media even shift their attention from case details to related-persons’ private lives. The importance of rating points and journalistic professionalism also affects media self-regulation.
The thesis thus concludes that although the co-regulation of law, heteronomy, and autonomy all take effect on journalistic self-regulation in this case, there is still room for improvement on crime reporting.
Subjects
衛星電視
新聞自律
三律共管
布迪厄
場域理論
八里雙屍案
SDGs
Type
thesis
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