Public interest group definition

Not a member? Join today. But what exactly is the public interest? And how do journalists ensure that they always respect it in the way they work? The following text goes some way to providing answers and owes much to a recent posting of Bob Egginton in the journalism support site Media Helping Media.

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References in periodicals archive? Unfortunately, because of the context in which they are mentioned, your article gives the casual reader the unfair impression that there is something wrong with my son's activities on behalf of the National Parks Conservation Association, a public-interest group whose purpose is to preserve and enhance the national parks system. Park Pork a public perk?

Health services and secondary provider organizations, as discussed in the previous section, are not the only entities with health policy concerns and interests. A wide variety of health-related interest groups , including some that are consumer based or that are organized around individual health practitioner memberships, exist because of the collective interests of their individual or organizational members in health policymaking and the resulting health policies. As will be discussed more fully in Chapter 3, one of the most significant features of the policymaking process and its political environment in the United States, as much in health as in any other domain, is the presence of a large number of interest groups whose purpose is to serve the collective interests of their members. These groups seek to analyze the policymaking process to discern policy changes that might affect their members and inform them about such changes.