Place and Role of the Media as Viewed by Executive Power Representatives (The Results of a Survey)

Section: Theory of Journalism and Media

The proposed work belongs to the series of articles aimed at presenting the results of several divisions of the theoretical and applied research project “Journalism in the Information Field of Contemporary Russia: the Due and the Real” at different stages of its implementation. The article describes a part of the second stage of the research, which focuses on studying the attitude of the executive power representatives to the media. While the first stage was carried out through an expert analysis of texts and intended to determine in what way the documents referring to the media spontaneously reflect the officials’ ideas of journalism, the second stage sought to obtain their conscious responses to the questions about journalism and was based on the use of a questionnaire survey. The article provides the data, gained in the course of the survey, on the views held by the executive power representatives about the functions of journalism in society; the conditions essential for media operations; the quality of their performance in reality. The paper is far from claiming that some universal conclusions could be drawn from the survey results. The data obtained should be regarded as a “factor test” making it possible to consciously determine the further routes of theoretical and applied research.

Kolesnichenko A. V. (2016) Rossiyskaya zhurnalistika mezhdu dolzhnym i real‘nym: vzglyad rukovoditeley i vladel‘tsev tsentral‘nykh rossiyskikh izdaniy (publichnye zayavleniya) [Russian Journalism between the Due and the Real: the Views of Russian National Print and Online Media Executives and Owners (Public Statements)]. Vestn. Mosk. un-ta. Ser. 10: Zhurnalistika 3: 17–29. (In Russian)

Kul’chitskaya D. Yu. (2016) Mediaprofessionaly o dolzhnoy i real’noy roli zhurnalistiki v sovremennom obshchestve: rezul’taty ekspertnogo analiza tekstov [Media Professionals about the Due and Real Role of Journalism in Contemporary Society: the Results of an Expert Analysis of Texts]. Vestn. Mosk. un-ta. Ser. 10: Zhurnalistika 5: 119–129. (In Russian)

Lazutina G. V. (2015) Veduschee protivorechie zhurnalistiki v usloviyakh sovremennoy Rossii kak nauchnaya problema: k razrabotke proekta issledovaniya [Basic Contradiction of Journalism in Contemporary Russia as a Scientific Problem: Research Project Development]. Vestn. Mosk. un-ta. Ser. 10: Zhurnalistika 5: 108–116. (In Russian)

Lazutina G. V., Uzunova T. E. (2016) Ispolnitel’naya vlast’ i SMI: predstavleniya o dolzhnom i real’nom [Executive Power and the Media: the Notions of the Due and the Real]. Medi@al’manakh 6: 26–32. (In Russian)