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Abstract
The research reported in this article examines for the first time contemporary U.S. TV journalism approached through the prism of its communicative architecture. We argue that the established communicative structures of TV news, generally overlooked and under-theorized in the research field, are deeply implicated in both processes of manufacturing consent and mediating democracy. The article illustrates and systematically compares how the established communicative structures of TV news feature within and across U.S terrestrial and satellite news networks and considers how they variously shape, constrain, and facilitate the public elaboration of major issues and engagement of identities.
Notes
1We would like to acknowledge the Australian Research Council for funding the research project Television Journalism and Deliberative Democracy: A Comparative International Study of Communicative Architecture and Democratic Deepening (DP0449505) that forms the basis of this article. We would also like to thank Jack Levy of New York University for his help in collecting news samples and preparing background information as well as Mugdha Rai, Principal Research Assistant who worked on this project.
2Other TV journalism formats including, for example, weekly current affairs and documentaries were excluded for the purposes of this article. (see CitationCottle 2006b).