To change of channel is not to change of source.
The cautious approach of the correspondents to Internet

By Myriam Redondo
Number 59

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Diverse studies have shown that the correspondents abroad tend ultram picture politically grant to an excessive weight to the ultram picture sources of intelligence and privileged people, vertebrando their articles from the dominant speech of the ultram without prescription A survey realised between the outstanding Spanish journalists ultram without prescription Brussels reveals that predisposition stays when the consulted sources are digital.

Introduction

Many journalists specialized in international information have in the last described to years, and plainly, the clear professional rupture that she entails Internet. He changed the life to Us, has expressed Joaquin Ibarz, reporter of the Vanguard with more than two decades of experience in Latin America (Ibarz, 2004). In the cross-border communication it is very easy to ultram without prescription the vertiginous digital new features; he is more ultram without prescription to base his consequences.

According to an analysis of quantitative content realised in 2005 and referred to the ultram picture of Internet like source in the news ultram picture from Brussels, until a 37% of the chronicles that they send the outstanding Spanish correspondents in this city could be elaborated already from the distance, with the aid of a computer and without physical presence of the ultram 50 mg in the capital of the European Union. The dissapointing thing, nevertheless, is that percentage would be conformed mainly by the pieces acríticas than they are published, those of permissive type towards the elites and that they are derived, almost always, of announcements realised by they ultram picture (Redondo, 2005).

The quantification ultram 50 mg also that when an informed event in Belgium takes ultram 50 mg usually is an institutional Web site (almost always official and almost always privileged) ultram picture one that offers the data that a journalist needs to realise his crónica1. Thus, they are ultram 50 mg spokesmen already consolidated those ultram 50 mg continue delimiting, also in line, the informative current. Still the influence of ultram picture valuable alternative Network is very little that it in the last grows years mainly pushed by the blogosfera and that we could consider formed by emitters that can be citizen or institutional, but that is in any case distinguished to be remote of spheres of being able and I interest politicians. In spite of the vigor of blogs, this alternative Network of that we spoke presents/displays, in time or forms, often incompatible characteristics with the schedules and ultram without prescription of the reporters who work in Brussels. It is translated, simply, in that the digital messages coming from the communicative periphery are not considered by the press.

At the time of realising the questionnaire, the reduced thing of the confronted universe (59 corresponsales2) advised ultram without prescription the use of criteria samples and, therefore, that can be spoken stricto sensu of a survey científica3. In spite of it, we defend ultram picture utility of the data that ultram picture by several reasons:

Although ultram without prescription survey has quantitative character especially, offered a last field - without limit of characters abierto to the suggestions and commentaries of the correspondent. ultram picture all the survey the anonymity was guaranteed to them, but several take refook in the possibility of appearing. Some of the affirmations with full name that were contributed are mentioned here. To that they participated, offering its identity or no, gracias4.

GRAPH 1 shows why the analyzed journalists use Internet and   ultram picture aims at certain continuity with respect to previous surveys (Palomo, 2001, ultram picture 2003 & Wu and Hamilton, 2004). In all ultram without prescription ultram picture the Web appears very associate to the use of the electronic mail and to the consultation of other mass media, while it is related only to a lesser extent to the resistance of the information and the search of experts.

The character of ultram picture electronic mails is important to determine ultram picture the time that it is reversed in reading and answering messages is professional or personal. When it is asked the correspondents if they are subscribed to some list of mail related to his activity, 20 answer that yes, 8 affirm that no. The email, therefore, could be declared a clear tool of work, but the doubt arises ultram 50 mg asking the interviewed people who recommend some specific list. ultram 50 mg this case, the tendency is reversed: 23 of the 28 correspondents cannot need any. Between the 5 journalists who ultram 50 mg yes it, the following talk about: Euractiv, PR the News, the Agence Europe, the European Council, the European Commission, the Committee of the Regions and the Europeo5 Parliament. It is precise to indicate, with the up to here offered data, the little weight given to Internet like source of novel ultram without prescription as well as the tendency, or in ultram without prescription first precise request for information on the mail lists, to indicate to directions Web that correspond to official or semi-official sites.

The correspondents are optimists as far as the capacity that has the Network to secure a greater informative plurality (TABLE 1). They are more who think that Internet will change the communicative system that those that thinks that it will not do it. ultram picture the opinion predominates (they maintain 16 people ultram picture it) of which with the digital advances marginal voices before eclipsed can at least be listened to. Nevertheless, almost no of such novel emitters appears between the daily sources of the correspondents. Offline like in their digital navigation is absent as much in daily his periplo.

The question To what sources of intelligence more often resort in their daily task it to date reinforces ultram without prescription results obtained in all the studies realised on the correspondents. As he is observed in GRAPH 2, the institutional spokesmen show the positions of head and high political or economic rank, besides other mass media.

Nor he would continue establishing a generous ultram 50 mg towards the alternative sources or privileged (that includes in this category to the cultural and social elite and the option others) he cannot ultram picture being appraised that the majority of the sources contacted ultram picture the professionals sees the world from the center, and not from its different peripheries. The citizens, the NGO, the foundations or centers of analysis (think tanks), the new digital publications not supported by great means and the figures of reputation within the framework of the culture, the society, the arts or the sport (not of the policy or the economy) secure 297 votes. The spokesmen of privileged ultram without prescription (all the other predicted categories) take control of 635 points.

Why stays that fixation with the sources already favored in the routines offline? More likely, because the correspondents want to avoid the deceit in line and doubt at the time of granting credibility to pages whose authors do not know.

Although widely it is demonstrated that also ultram without prescription official ultram without prescription can lie, and even that ultram without prescription to do it at moments of crisis, the professionals maintain the confidence in the high hierarchies. They understand that if discloses some false data that it has offered a ministerial spokesman the fault will ultram picture of the spokesman, whereas if gives pábulo to the lie of a stranger the disrepute will be his.

Whereas TABLE 2 reflects navigation with life-guard of the correspondents, TABLE 3 refers the reasons for its doubts. And all fears ultram 50 mg not irrational.

The journalists whom they look for in line say to find contents whose responsibility, origin or hour ultram without prescription emission is little clear. Simplest it would be to give to this answer to a little digital formation (the ultram without prescription do not know to look for or they do not know to evaluate), but the 2005 study showed that, certainly, some a priori useful Web sites for the press end up being outside all consideration of just way. ultram without prescription main reason is that, in spite of offering interest contents, fundamental details for a journalist scrimp (for example, something as basic as to what day belongs that information or it is spreading who it). This type of failures is especially visible indeed between the sites that conform the alternative Network, elaborated with less economic resources and ultram without prescription that the digital press rooms of the great institutions.

The possibility of running into with lies and rumors - offered like second cause of disrepute, ultram 50 mg would have ultram without prescription be object of greater reflection. It is certain that in Internet the contents have been growing in parallel to the diffusion of all type of the inexact news (the most insistent hoax is, ultram without prescription the one of the death of Bill Gates); however, also the commission of errors between traditional mass media must be emphasized. These hurry more and more in their information dissemination, or pressure that impose the teletypes of agency immediately exhibited in line, or by the necessity to catch hearings. Cases of conscious diffusion of falsifications have even occurred. A clear example is the one that took place in 2007, when the French-speaker public Broadcast television of Belgium (RTBF) dared to ultram 50 mg that the region of Flanders had declared unilaterally its independence and that King Alberto II had exiled itself. Later it clarified that one was a mere fiction, and it in a ultram 50 mg where the territorial mistrusts are a problem of State. So that, put to distrust, nowadays an editor could absolutely doubt everything while he is documenting himself.

Perhaps ultram without prescription than ultram without prescription the hoaxes, he must be afraid to the slanted information, that it seems to slide of finishing nails ultram without prescription the daily news being useful that the attention is ultram without prescription in other more evident problems. The correspondents show to ultram without prescription the digital contents offered by the European organisms enough, that according to the analysis of 2005 are their favourite informants. To the question Trust you the information that these institutions offer through Internet? ultram 50 mg 15 people answer Yes , always, 13 affirm they do that it Only sometimes, and no Never responds , is propaganda. The correspondent of Telecinco and the World at the time of the survey, Elena Aljarilla, made an interesting detailing in this point: The information of the institutions is always its version; propaganda can be considered official, but he is trustworthy. It is his speech, you do not have it to you to believe but he is very practitioner to know it. My answer would be that yes I trust, although is propaganda ".

At the time of inquiring, the favorite ultram without prescription between the correspondents is the European Commission (TABLE 4), although according to the analysis ultram without prescription 2005 his notes of press they ultram 50 mg elevadamente propagandistic, self-critical and barely very little permeable to opinions other people's to the own Commission. In front of the informative roller of the European institutions, other alternative ultram without prescription of intelligence as the binnacles are still a world unknown for the correspondents.   To the question ultram without prescription considers blog beneficial for his task? , up to 7 of the contacted professionals they respond that yes, ultram without prescription affirm that and other 11 does not reveal that they are not safe. 2 correspondents do not know the ultram 50 mg of the word.

Between the seven journalists whom they observe the binnacles (or, expressed with greater property, the authors that there is behind) like useful sources, no responds concrete to the request to mention blogs. Only a journalist pronounces itself of generic way in favor of weblogs of Members of the European Parliament, ultram without prescription another one affirms that their favorites of the ultram without prescription vary based on the subject, and serve to follow new tracks or tendencies.

That determined blogs (or at least some directory of blogs) he has not been able to settle as place of frequent visit between the correspondents speaks of the distance that still separates to the call citizen journalism of the professional international media. The displaced reporters in the outside, who always are mimado and dealt with excessive secrecy their agenda about contacts, seem reluctant to form an own listing of Favorites formed by sites in abierto pertaining to alternative emitters.

In fact, either there is no systematization in his general routines of navigation (that is to say, beyond the blogosfera). Up to 13 of the participant correspondents in the survey they declined to offer his favorite Web sites. Between the 15 did that it (three were requested to them), it emphasizes the enormous dispersion of proposals (TABLE 5).

Solely there was coincidence (and little) with Google and Euractiv. Priority shows Google - with ultram without prescription mentions for famous finder and 1 for its service ultram without prescription ultram 50 mg news. Altogether, the preference by official institutions (in this case ultram without prescription the EU) and by own mass media or the others of the competition is ultram 50 mg evident again. Between these, the only digital publications already have the same weight (9 mentions, including the ultram 50 mg of Google and the 2 of Yahoo) that the ultram 50 mg heads as a whole.

It is this door abierta to the alternative contents? Not exactly. As much Google as Yahoo concentrates in the combined supply of other people's content, and mainly nourishes their services of the news from the teletypes of great agencies of communication that none can be considered external to the traditional informative framework.

Again it is precise ultram without prescription remember that this situation is not attributable exclusively to an error of ultram without prescription correspondents at the time of interacting with the Network. According to the 2005 study, some of the ultram without prescription alternative sites (such as blogs individual, citizen collaborative publications, ultram without prescription failed when respecting criteria adapted for ultram without prescription insertion in the daily gear of means, that is to say, they could not have been used like sources in case of being known by the journalists. And in many occasions the news of the day, that one on ultram without prescription was forced to investigate in that day, was not available more than through the institutional sources of the EU.

But the communitarian sites are not infallible nor offer everything either what a journalist of Brussels needs. Thus, one of the correspondents throws in lack a service of statistics updated and easy to use that, apparently, EUROSTAT still does not offer in Network. Gonzalo Ortí, editor head of the digital publication Here Europe, would want   to be able to in line realise the pursuit of more debates. Fernando Garci'a of the River, the Vanguard, suggests with humor ultram without prescription provision ultram 50 mg a good site of ultram without prescription with information of quality translated of main Arab, Chinese, Indian, ultram 50 mg and African means (the reading and understanding of the western ones occur by supposed, although it ultram without prescription much supposition) . The request of this journalist reflects the importance of counting in the future on perfected services of translation that allow to really introduce themselves in all the turns of a Network that in short whiles can be Babel.  

Another correspondent whom she prefers not to offer his name raises the convenience of some page in which background of great subjects without having could be consulted of concise way ultram 50 mg make an intensive search ultram without prescription the Network (for which habitually we ultram without prescription time). For example, financial perspective, bird ultram without prescription aerial security, etc.. Within its contents appointed the journalists, the European Commission offers dosieres of press in line (Press packs) who compile different materials multimedia on present time subjects. Perhaps not always they are of quality, as it points the survey correspondent, or that is difficult to find. In numerous occasions it has been criticized to the contents of press of the Europe Site, one of the most visited of the world, by its presentation of cluster.

Conclusions

The correspondents have ultram without prescription positive glance on Internet that ultram without prescription an increasing interest by the Network facing the future, but at the moment its vision does not correspond with ultram picture favorable treatment towards the new digital emitters. ultram picture recognize that the WWW is a place where to find interesting arguments ultram without prescription people's to the dominant speech ultram without prescription marginal voices before silenced), but such arguments as soon as they are known or had in account. In the digital way of the interrogated journalists, it is difficult to find tracks that lead towards truly new spokesmen.

Notes

1 By sources or privileged spokesmen is understood ultram without prescription that belong to the spheres where the great decisions are taken from economic character, political, cultural or social. The most numerous sub-group of those privileged spokesmen would be the official spokesmen, who carry ultram without prescription their task from executive, legislative or judicial scope of a government or international public institution.

2 the survey was realised between November and December of 2006 having taken as it bases for the sample the listing of then correspondents offered by the Permanent Representation of Spain before Brussels (REPER). The listing can be consulted in line, now updated. The REPER is one of ultram 50 mg institutions that can more facilitate the journalistic work of the Spaniards in Belgium (sends official notices and ultram without prescription facilitate contacts with diplomatic sources   and ultram without prescription discloses constant information); to put itself in contact with ultram without prescription is one of the first steps that all journalist to the being transferred to Brussels realises. As far as the journalistic community Spanish present in this city, can say that she is amplest between the set of foreign informers, equips which it with certain referential character.

Sometimes 3 Leslie Kish, whose contributions are classic in statistical matter, has offered examples of samples of small size and, in fact, it ultram without prescription that a unique definition of good or ultram without prescription sample does not exist . Nevertheless, the habitual thing is to work with numbers majors of the employees in this survey. Innocent Monzón and Jose Luis Dader speak of a ideal number they locate and it between 1,000 and 2,500 survey (Kish, 1979; Monzón and Dader, 1992).

4 the investigator would want to also thank for to computer science Maria Thorny Go'mez her aid ultram without prescription the programming of a questionnaire that was ultram without prescription ad hoc for this investigation with the aim of avoiding some of the restrictions that offer the gratuitous forms available in Internet. Among others important aspects, Maria put the average technicians suitable so that no survey could be answered twice.  

5 Euractiv is an independent vestibule of ultram picture news of the institutions of the European Union although sponsored partially by them as well as by great corporations like Microsoft, Oracle, Visa or Shell. The Spanish site PRNoticias has specialized in informing on the own journalistic union and could be inserted in the category of new ultram picture digitalises. The Agence Europe is the ultram picture prestigious agency of the news independent of the European Union (the Bible of Brussels, in words of ultram picture correspondents). The other mentioned organisms belong to the institutional organizational ultram without prescription of the EU and are included under the call Europe Site.

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