ABSTRACT

The distribution of foreign correspondents across the globe indicates countries’ newsworthiness, particularly significant when media companies withdraw their journalists residing abroad. This article analyzes in-depth interviews with foreign correspondents in Poland, which has changed dramatically during the 30 years preceding the research. It answers the questions of (1) What are the facts and issues in Poland’s recent history that foreign correspondents selected as particularly meaningful and worth reporting to their audiences? (2) And how did they frame them, contributing to the country’s popular understanding and positioning in the political, economic, and cultural global order? The continuous drop in newsworthiness of Poland indicates its normalizing situation as a semi-peripheral country. Rhetorical analysis of how the correspondents talked about Poland show a prominent scene-act ratio. Poland’s image shifts from a recognized agent of the bloodless democratic revolution, metaphorically rather than geographically distant to Western European countries, a scene of economic and mental transformation to an EU member, an agent coping surprisingly well with the economic crisis and a scene of values changes as well as new political and social cleavages of the local importance. It is a country where history and memories of the past have relevance in contemporary politics and where its representations in foreign media resonate and provoke political reactions.

摘要

外国记者在全球范围内的分布表明了该国的新闻价值，特别是在媒体公司撤出驻在国外的记者时，这一点尤其重要。本文分析了在波兰对外国记者的深入采访，该采访在研究开始前的30年中发生了巨大变化。它回答了以下问题：（1）在波兰近代史上，外国记者被选为特别有意义并值得向听众报道的事实和问题是什么？（2）他们如何构架它们，以促进该国在政治，经济和文化全球秩序中的普遍了解和定位？波兰的新闻价值不断下降，表明其作为半外围国家的正常化态势。对记者如何谈论波兰的修辞分析显示出了显着的场景作用比。波兰的形象从公认的不流血的民主革命的代理人，隐喻地转移到了西欧国家，而不是在地理上远离西欧国家，从经济和思想转变的场景到欧盟成员国，一个代理人对经济危机的应对能力出乎意料，价值观念发生了变化以及对当地重要性的新的政治和社会分裂。这个国家的历史和过去的记忆与当代政治息息相关，在外国媒体中的代表引起共鸣并引起了政治反应。从隐喻上而不是地理上与西欧国家相距遥远，这是一个向欧盟成员国进行经济和思想转变的场景，一个代理人惊人地很好地应对了经济危机，以及一个价值观变化的场景以及具有地方重要性的新的政治和社会分裂。这个国家的历史和过去记忆与当代政治息息相关，在外国媒体中的代表引起共鸣并引起了政治反应。从隐喻上而不是地理上与西欧国家相距遥远，这是一个向欧盟成员国进行经济和思想转变的场景，一个代理人惊人地很好地应对了经济危机，以及一个价值观变化的场景以及具有地方重要性的新的政治和社会分裂。这个国家的历史和过去记忆与当代政治息息相关，在外国媒体中的代表引起共鸣并引起了政治反应。