Transformation of the News Systems on the Russian Regional TV Channels

Abstract

The relevance of studying the process of the news systems transformation in the media is substantiated by the constant interest of the society in getting the information disseminated by the mass media. It is necessary for the individual understanding of the phenomena and of the objective reality patterns. The article attempts to identify the factors influencing the process of the news systems formation in the modern media. The article is based on the general-scientific methods of the historical and philosophical analysis and on the general theory of knowledge. Such general-scientific methods as historical, dialectical, systematic, structural and comparative ones as well as specific methods, namely observation, document analysis and content analysis form the methodological base of the research. The main method is the systematic and structural approach which gives an opportunity of regarding any object as an integral complex of interconnected elements. The article highlights both the informative, holistic news systems which are capable of reflecting the trends in the development of socio-political processes and patterns of the society life and the incomplete, fragmentary ones, the elements of which are poorly connected with each other. The authors prove that the process of the formation of the news systems as of meaningful and self-organizing phenomena is reflected in eliminating distinctions between relevant and irrelevant events and in the harmonization of journalists’ activities.