Editing Agenda-setting theory (section)

==== Agenda-cutting ====
One concept in the context of agenda-setting theory is the concept of agenda-cutting. Colistra defines agenda-cutting as the attempt to direct attention away from relevant issues “(1) by placing an item low on the news agenda (burying it), (2) by removing it from agenda once it is there, or (3) by completely ignoring it by never placing it on the agenda in the first place”.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Colistra |first1=Rita |title=Shaping and Cutting the Media Agenda: Television Reporters' Perceptions of Agenda- and Frame-Building and Agenda-Cutting Influences |journal=Journalism & Communication Monographs |date=June 2012 |volume=14 |issue=2 |pages=85–146 |doi=10.1177/1522637912444106 }}</ref> Agenda-cutting is mainly seen to occur to news issues that are significant and controversial. Agenda-cutting needs to be motivated by the deliberate intention to drop a news issue from the agenda; a case of news omission does not qualify for agenda-cutting but rather constitutes a result of news selection (which tries to differentiate between the relevant and the irrelevant).<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Buchmeier |first1=Yosuke |title=Towards a Conceptualization and Operationalization of Agenda-Cutting: A Research Agenda for a Neglected Media Phenomenon |journal=Journalism Studies |date=25 October 2020 |volume=21 |issue=14 |pages=2007–2024 |doi=10.1080/1461670X.2020.1809493 |url=http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-94798-1 }}</ref>

Despite being first mentioned in the 1980s by Mallory Wober and Barrie Gunter,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wober |first=J. M. |title=Television and social control |date=1988 |publisher=St. Martin's Press |others=Barrie Gunter |isbn=0-312-01305-1 |location=New York |pages=128 |oclc=16406708}}</ref> agenda-cutting has only been sporadically taken up in scholarly research. One reason for the academic neglect of this concept is seen in the fact that there have been only few empirical investigations on the one hand, while no sufficient theoretical basis has been established on the other. First steps towards conceptualizing and operationalizing agenda-cutting have been put forward by Buchmeier.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Buchmeier |first1=Yosuke |title=Towards a Conceptualization and Operationalization of Agenda-Cutting: A Research Agenda for a Neglected Media Phenomenon |journal=Journalism Studies |date=25 October 2020 |volume=21 |issue=14 |pages=2007–2024 |doi=10.1080/1461670X.2020.1809493 |url=http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:19-epub-94798-1 }}</ref>

Other studies shed light on the editorial processes in the newsroom which potentially lead to agenda-cutting.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Colistra |first=Rita |date=2018 |title=Power Pressures and Pocketbook Concerns: Perceptions of Organizational Influences on News Content in the Television Industry |url= |journal=International Journal of Communication |volume=12 |issue= |pages=1790–1810 |doi= |issn=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Haarkötter |first=Hektor |date=2022 |title=Discarded news. On news enlightenment, agenda cutting, and news ignorance |url=https://journalistik.online/en/paper-en/discarded-news/ |journal=Journalism Research |volume=5 |issue=2 |pages=114–133}}</ref> There are two non-profit media watchdog organizations whose mission is to draw attention to neglected and censored issues in the news: Project Censored<ref>{{Cite web |title=Project Censored |url=https://www.projectcensored.org/ |access-date=2022-08-09 |website=Project Censored |language=en-US}}</ref> in the US and INA (Initiative News Enlightenment)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Die Initiative Nachrichtenaufklärung e.V. - |url=http://www.derblindefleck.de/ |access-date=2022-08-09 |website=www.derblindefleck.de |language=de-DE}}</ref> in Germany.