Gatekeeping is one of the media's central roles in public life: People rely on mediators to transform information about billions of events into a manageable number of media messages. This process determines not only which information is selected, but also what the content and nature of messages, suc[...]
"Gatekeeping Theory" examines one of the most enduring concepts in mass communication scholarship. Simply put, gatekeeping is the process by which the billions of messages that are available in the world get cut down and transformed into the hundreds of messages that reach a given person on a given [...]