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Closing the Shop: Information Cartels and Japan's Mass Media

Closing the Shop: Information Cartels and Japan's Mass Media

Freeman, Laurie Anne

Hardcover

Writing InstructionGeneral Political ScienceJapanese History

ISBN10: 0691059543
ISBN13: 9780691059549
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Jan 30 2000
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.24
Height: 0.95 Width: 6.45 Depth: 9.51
Language: English

How is the relationship between the Japanese state and Japanese society mediated by the press? Does the pervasive system of press clubs, and the regulations underlying them, alter or even censor the way news is reported in Japan? Who benefits from the press club system? And who loses? Here Laurie Anne Freeman examines the subtle, highly interconnected relationship between journalists and news sources in Japan.

Beginning with a historical overview of the relationship between the press, politics, and the public, she describes how Japanese press clubs act as information cartels, limiting competition among news organizations and rigidly structuring relations through strict rules and sanctions. She also shows how the web of interrelations extends into, and is reinforced by, media industry associations and business groups (keiretsu). Political news and information are conveyed to the public in Japan, but because of institutional constraints, they are conveyed in a highly delimited fashion that narrows the range of societal inquiry into the political process.


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