{"id":811,"date":"2008-02-11T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/?p=811"},"modified":"2008-02-11T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T15:03:00","slug":"what-we-get-from-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/2008\/02\/what-we-get-from-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"What we get from the news&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcaps\">I<\/span>n the turgid world of academic writing on <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">communications<\/span> you have to look hard to find the gems. Here is one of them. A survey of people\u2019s viewing habits in old communist <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">East Germany<\/span>, the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The gem (IMHO) is the last line, by the way: <span id=\"fullpost\"><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Apart from time and income, communication needs are rather shaped by working and living conditions and the complexity of a particular society&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>None of the respondents said that they totally trusted the GDR media. Especially those interviewees in touch with the blue-collar industries (factories, the craft sector and trade) gave numerous examples of the way things were glossed over or biased by the media.<\/p>\n<p>However, for most respondents, Western media were not an adequate alternative. Just as advice programmes could not be applied to life in the East, so news and political magazines were only of limited help in managing everyday life. \u2018The West did not know anything about the East\u2019, a female worker explained. \u2018I watched East German news because I had<br \/>to come to terms with daily life here in the GDR.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From \u2018Credibility of media offerings in centrally controlled media systems: a qualitative study based on the example of East Germany\u2019 Michael Meyen and Katja Schwer, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Media, Culture &amp; Society<\/span>, Vol. 29, No. 2, 284-303 (2007)<br \/><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the turgid world of academic writing on communications you have to look hard to find the gems. Here is one of them. A survey of people\u2019s viewing habits in old communist East Germany, the German Democratic Republic (GDR). The gem (IMHO) is the last line, by the way: Apart from time and income, communication [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/adrianmonck.com\/about\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}