Why Does "News in Brief" Stigmatize?

Special Report: Journalistic Practices
The Indirect Discrimination Hypothesis
By Jérôme Berthaut, Éric Darras, Sylvain Laurens
English

Often denounced for the 'enticing'? or 'stigmatizing'? aspects of faits-divers, the local press and its journalists have been the subject of many public debates. Based on an in-depth study of the editorial work at a local daily, the authors of this article argue that to understand the 'ethnicization'? of faits-divers, it is necessary to consider simultaneously the economic and technical constraints in which journalistic work takes place. They describe the logics of editorial work and those imposed by marketing, as well as the influence of sources and the finished products (articles or radio/TV reports) which determine the media's coverage of working class neighbourhoods. They show that, as readers, audiences or researchers, we can discover those areas without knowing anything whatsoever about the immersed part of the iceberg.

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