Do journalists' opinions affect news selection in a low-key conflict? : newspaper coverage of the discussion of smoking bans in Switzerland
- Schulz, Peter J. Institute of Communication and Health (ICH), Facoltà di scienze della comunicazione, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
- Hartung, Uwe Institute of Communication and Health (ICH), Facoltà di scienze della comunicazione, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
- Fiordelli, Maddalena Institute of Communication and Health (ICH), Facoltà di scienze della comunicazione, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
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27.01.2012
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- Journalism and mass communication quarterly. - Association for education in journalism and mass communication. - 2012, vol. 89, no. 3, p. 414-430
Instrumental actualization
synchronization of news and opinion
conflict coverage
argumentation
content analysis
smoke-free legislation
English
This quantitative content analysis applies the theory of instrumental actualization to Swiss newspaper coverage of smoking bans in public places. The theory holds that journalists' opinions affect news selection; it is studied here for the weighting and evaluation of arguments in news stories. The editorial stance of newspapers was related to the weighting of argumentative fields and the frequency of contradiction of different standpoints. Therefore, elements of both a dialectical (papers of different stance explicitly contradicting one another) and a rhetorical (papers of different stance speaking of different matters) model of discourse were found.
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