La reconnaissance sociale du pouvoir symbolique des journalistes politiques

Abstract

The article analyses strategies employed by political journalists at Quebec's National Assembly to gain recognition of their symbolic power in political communication exchanges. These strategies, which depend on a journalist's position in the system of interaction operating in his area of specialisation, consist of a double rhetoric of objectivity and critical expertise, coupled with a method of regulating the coverage of political events, based on co-operation among parliamentary journalists.