This Article Full Text (PDF) References Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by Velthuis, O. Search for Related Content Social Bookmarking                         What's this?

Inside a world of spin

Four days at the World Trade Organization

De Volkskrant, The Netherlands

This article provides an ethnographic account of newspaper coverage of a trade summit which took place in Geneva in the last days of July 2004. One problematic aspect of covering news events at international economic institutions such as the World Trade Organization is the phenomenon of mediated mediation: whereas the role of journalists is to mediate between news events and the public, access to these events is restricted. As a result, the media are dependent on mediation by key actors, press officers, spokespersons, NGOs and other parties with an interest in the way events are represented. Given the highly technical nature of these events, and the limited expertise of journalists, interested parties have many opportunities to ‘spin’ the coverage

Key Words: media anthropology • globalization • World Trade Organization • sociology of journalism

Ethnography, Vol. 7, No. 1, 125-150 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1466138106064928


CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter    What's this?

This article has been cited by other articles:

				A. Cornia, J. Lonnendonker, and P. Nitz European Councils as first encounters of trans-European media communication? Journalism, August 1, 2008; 9(4): 493 - 515. [Abstract] [PDF]