Boundary Maintenance and Interloper Media Reaction
- 16 April 2013
- journal article
- Published by Taylor & Francis Ltd in Journalism Studies
- Vol. 15 (1), 1-16
- https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670x.2013.791077
Abstract
In his fictional story The Interlopers, Saki tells of two men fighting over the rights to a wooded hunting land. While both have long claimed the right to the land, one holds the legal right and the otherthe interloperclaims to belong (Saki 1930). This story forms the allegorical locus of this paper, examining the way a self-defined in-group of traditional journalism protects its perceived professional identity against entitiesInterloper Mediawho claim belonging. This is achieved through distinct processes that echo but diverge from traditional boundary maintenance. This paper argues subtle and nuanced language in news texts referring to WikiLeaks serves to invalidate WikiLeaks' extant and persistent claims of being journalism. These processes differ from boundary maintenance processes related to phone hacking, which serve as inwardly focused self-policing of the professionKeywords
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