Local broadcast gatekeeping during natural disasters.
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TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: 1973Description: 8p., refs appear throughout, 2 figsReport number: Institutional/Corporate BodySubject: Most of the studies of gatekeeping that have been published since 1950 have ignored a salient characteristic of community structure that has important consequences for organizational behavior. This social structural dimension is the situational context or the general community framework within which organizations exist. Previous studies have dealt with gatekeeping in both newspaper offices and commercial broadcasting stations, but only as these organizations carry out their tasks during normal, everyday times. Little attention has been given these same organizations as they undergo stress as a result of a changed situational context. One of the more significant community contexts is the crisis situation. Gatekeeping processes in organizations in crisis settings are important for the comparisons and contrasts they offer to gatekeeping during routine periods. This paper reports on one such study of gatekeeping during crises. The author believes that the public is replacing the newsman as primary gatekeeper for small and medium radio stations in times of major local disasters
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Reprinted from Journalism Quarterly; 1973; Vol 50, No 4; pp751-758
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Most of the studies of gatekeeping that have been published since 1950 have ignored a salient characteristic of community structure that has important consequences for organizational behavior. This social structural dimension is the situational context or the general community framework within which organizations exist. Previous studies have dealt with gatekeeping in both newspaper offices and commercial broadcasting stations, but only as these organizations carry out their tasks during normal, everyday times. Little attention has been given these same organizations as they undergo stress as a result of a changed situational context. One of the more significant community contexts is the crisis situation. Gatekeeping processes in organizations in crisis settings are important for the comparisons and contrasts they offer to gatekeeping during routine periods. This paper reports on one such study of gatekeeping during crises. The author believes that the public is replacing the newsman as primary gatekeeper for small and medium radio stations in times of major local disasters
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