Trust No One (on the Internet) The CIA-Crack-Contra Conspiracy Theory and Professional Journalism  

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Bratich, Jack Zeljko

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Television and New Media vol. 5 no. 2 (Mei 2004), page 109–139.
Topik: journalism; new media; internet; conspiracy; governmentality
Fulltext: 109TNVM52.pdf (188.29KB)

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This article examines the "metastory" surrounding Gary Webb’s 1996 "Dark Alliance" series as a moment of crisis in mainstream journalism. Two forces converge in Webb's series and its aftermath: (1) establishment journalism confronts and manages the reemergent phenomenon of conspiracy theory, and (2) establishment print-based journalism attempts to organize a relationship with the emergent medium of the internet. When these two forces collide in the profession, conspiracy theories and the web end up mutually defining each other. This problematization of a conspiracy theory has multiple effects - not only in disqualifying the story itself but in reshaping the profession of journalism in its relation to new technology. Eschewing technological determinism, this article demonstrates how a new technology is made sensible through a professional discourse as a way of making itmanageable. In turn, professional journalism operates as technical expertise in a liberal political rationality of "governing at a distance."

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