언론인의 공정성 인식에 관한 연구

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to categorize journalists type in accordance with objectivity. Total P sample was collected randomly from Busan, Daegu and Gyungnam province who work for daily newspapers and broadcasting companies. The result proved 4 different types named scholastic, bureaucratic, politician, salaried type each. First type tries to meet the objectivity by his or her own regulation more than the endowed terms and conditions. Second pay more attention to law and regulation to keep the fairness if necessary. The third type trust the professionalism of which could maintain the minimum fairness. This is slightly different from the first type. And the 4th type stress the commercialism as much as journalism. Based on this findings and comparison with similar former studies, we argue that there are some slightly different perspectives among journalists about objectivity. More importantly, the perception about the objectivity has been changed in accordance with the development of society. In other words, those sub concepts like objectivity, balance, and neutrality are interpreted differently than former study. Clearly, this is result of democratization that brought the critical discursive publics. This study has limits on media and journalists sampling. Exclusion of new media in the digital era also remains as a defect. In the rushing convergent and emergent media environment, this study could be a milestone to detonate the digital objectivity contention hopefully.