Legal journalism

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As advocacy journalism journalistic activity is referred to the party poignant presentation dedicated of viewpoints that the mass media are under-represented. This can be about the interests of minorities, but also about those of (powerless) majorities (e.g. women, workers), whose viewpoints are disproportionately little heard in the media. This form of journalism is closely linked to the concept of the counter-public . "Legal journalism" is a form of opinion journalism because it gives up the position of neutrality.

Wolfgang R. Langenbucher , emeritus professor of journalism and communication studies at the University of Vienna, explains advocacy journalism as follows: "If the political system dominates communication, deficits necessarily arise. The new responsibility of the media then lies in a compensatory, an advocacy role. Journalists can and must help those who speak, to the public, who have arguments but no power. "

Representative

A prime example in Austria is Victor Adler , social democrat , founder of the weekly Gleichheit and the daily Arbeiter-Zeitung , an organ that was initially a class struggle and later became a party newspaper of the SPÖ .

Another representative was Karl von Vogelsang , who wrote for Das Vaterland , among other things , and later founded the monthly Christian Social Reform . Among other things, he turned against the ideas of the March Revolution , against free property and free trade , but is also controversial because of anti-Semitic statements.