MedIa freedoM and PluralIsM In the unIted KIngdoM (uK)
Key political systemic and media systemic features According to Hallin and Mancini’s (2004) much-cited typology of models of media and politics, the UK media system corresponds to the ‘North Atlantic/Liberal ’ model, which is characterized by: n Market-domination (however, they note, except the BBC)...
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| Summary: | Key political systemic and media systemic features According to Hallin and Mancini’s (2004) much-cited typology of models of media and politics, the UK media system corresponds to the ‘North Atlantic/Liberal ’ model, which is characterized by: n Market-domination (however, they note, except the BBC). n A neutral commercial press characterized by internally pluralistic journalism (again, except that in Britain they acknowledge that there is external pluralism, namely party political ‘parallelism’), and n Professionalization and non-institutionalized self-regulation. In fact, as the exceptions noted by Hallin and Mancini already suggest, the UK media system is far from bearing any close resemblance to that of the United States. Like the media system of France, or that of Germany, or Italy, it is in many respects sui generis (see Humphreys 1996). It functions in a very different cultural and socio-political context from the United States, or indeed from other ‘North Atlantic ’ (taken to mean ‘Anglo-Saxon’) countries. Politically, following Lijphart’s (1984) well-known models of democracy, the United Kingdom |
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