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The new media environment has challenged the role of professional
journalists as the primary source of politically relevant
information. After Broadcast News puts this challenge into
historical context, arguing that it is the latest of several
critical moments, driven by economic, political, cultural, and
technological changes, in which the relationship among citizens,
political elites, and the media has been contested. Out of these
past moments, distinct media regimes eventually emerged, each with
its own seemingly natural rules and norms, and each the result of
political struggle with clear winners and losers. The media regime
in place for the latter half of the twentieth century has been
dismantled, but a new regime has yet to emerge. Assuring this
regime is a democratic one requires serious consideration of what
was most beneficial and most problematic about past regimes and
what is potentially most beneficial and most problematic about
today's new information environment.
At every level of government, environmental regulation is under
siege. In Washington, it has been attacked first through the "New
Federalism" and now through the "Contract with America." Outside
the capital, environmental regulation is the subject of controversy
as state and local officials struggle with new responsibilities,
threats of industry exit, and challenges from grassroots groups.
This book addresses the conundrum of regulation by tracing its
source to the competing characterizations of regulatory legitimacy
that have accompanied the growth of the American state. Bruce
Williams and Albert Matheny identify three distinct
languages-managerial, pluralist, and communitarian-used to
articulate competing visions of regulation. They argue that each
language posits a different understanding of the public interest
and therefore a different relationship between the state, the
market, and the public. Because all three languages are invoked in
regulatory debates, disputants talk past one another, leaving
fundamental issues of legitimacy and democracy unresolved or masked
by unexamined assumptions. The authors propose a dialogic model for
analyzing regulatory policymaking, drawing on postmodernist theory
that claims that establishing single languages for understanding
the world inevitably distorts communication. They then apply their
analysis to case studies of actual environmental disputes over
hazardous waste regulation in the 1980s and 1990s in New Jersey,
Ohio, and Florida.
The new media environment has challenged the role of professional
journalists as the primary source of politically relevant
information. After Broadcast News puts this challenge into
historical context, arguing that it is the latest of several
critical moments, driven by economic, political, cultural, and
technological changes, in which the relationship among citizens,
political elites, and the media has been contested. Out of these
past moments, distinct media regimes eventually emerged, each with
its own seemingly natural rules and norms, and each the result of
political struggle with clear winners and losers. The media regime
in place for the latter half of the twentieth century has been
dismantled, but a new regime has yet to emerge. Assuring this
regime is a democratic one requires serious consideration of what
was most beneficial and most problematic about past regimes and
what is potentially most beneficial and most problematic about
today's new information environment.
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