Leitmedien und Zielgruppenorgane

Wilke, Jürgen

doi:10.7788/9783412328733-014

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“…Combined they cover the political spectrum of the German daily press (Wilke, 1996, p. 395 Apart from taz, all the newspapers are classified as 'quality papers' because politicians and other journalists pay special attention to their content (Wilke, 1999). Quality newspapers influence issue coverage in other media, including radio and television stations.…”

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The BSE Crisis in German Newspapers: Reframing Responsibility

Feindt

Kleinschmit²

2011

Science as Culture

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The 2000/2001 German BSE crisis unfolded as a public drama where awkward crisis management and political attacks on industrial agriculture sparked intense, prolonged media coverage. Mediatisation and politicisation of BSE went hand in hand. In the process, responsibilities for problems and solutions were socially constructed. A high level of press coverage and a policy turnabout (Agrarwende) became mutually reinforcing, according to our analysis of more than 5,000 articles from five national German quality newspapers. Politicians had a prominent standing but did not dominate the BSE discourse; speakers from civil society, the private sector and the media had a relatively good 'standing'. Before the policy change, consumers appeared as the main victims in the media, while afterwards it was agriculture. Throughout the crisis, politicians were mostly blamed as problem causers and to a far lesser degree business and agriculture. Politicians were also overwhelmingly framed as problem solvers, far more than science, agriculture, business and consumers. As the new policy unfolded, more issue frames were articulated, suggesting that the debate shifted from BSE to the general direction of agriculture policy and the distribution of subsidies, but also to the relation between nature and technology and to a lesser degree the relation between food and consumers. Localisation and globalisation of food and international issues played minor roles. In the context of wider research on mass media and public opinion, the case study shows how media coverage tends to politicise food hazards. Food scares offer high news values and attract wide audiences. While industrial agriculture received much blame, major responsibility was attributed to the political system.

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“…Despite the arrival of new media, newspapers have maintained a key position in mediating political issues and influencing decision-making (Wilke, 1999). The observation period is 1 January 2000 until 31 December 2001.…”

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The BSE Crisis in German Newspapers: Reframing Responsibility

Feindt

Kleinschmit²

2011

Science as Culture

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“…The subject of the study was the reportage on the second Intifada and the Gaza War by five highly regarded national German newspapers: Die Welt (DW), Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ), Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), Frankfurter Rundschau (FR) and Die Tageszeitung (taz). The choice of these five newspapers has proved reliable in many content analytic media studies, whereby we can assume that they cover the entire political spectrum (Wilke, 1999). Because they do not all publish Sunday and holiday editions, in general we did not consider these.…”

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Coverage of the Second Intifada and the Gaza War in the German quality press

Maurer¹,

Kempf²

2011

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In recent years German media coverage of the Middle East conflict has been accused of an anti-Israeli bias that reinforces old, widely held prejudices and stereotypes about Jews and supports the common accusation that Israel misuses the tragedy of the Holocaust to justify anti-Palestinian policies. In particular, there is the accusation that during and after the Gaza War the media portrayed Israel as the aggressor while minimizing Palestinian terrorism. There is still no systematic research on this topic, however. The present paper is intended to help correct this deficiency by presenting the results of a content analytical study comparing the coverage of the Gaza War and the Second Intifada by a group of highly regarded national German quality newspapers: Die Welt, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Frankfurter Rundschau and Tageszeitung. We analyzed a representative sample of 396 articles from these papers, covering the entire political spectrum from right to left, using the following dimensions: (1) portrayal of the conflict parties' behavior, (2) evaluation of their aims and actions, and (3) punctuation of the conflict and portrayal of victims. We found that the media coverage of both conflicts was much more complex and differentiated than assumed by critics, and during the Gaza War the German quality press also did its best to avoid shifting to the Palestinian side. If the German press stimulated anti-Israeli or even anti-Semitic attitudes, this was due more to a "boomerang" effect than to any anti-Israel bias in news coverage.

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“…[10] In einer von Jürgen Wilke (1999) publizierten Studie werden die Süddeutsche Zeitung und die Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung mit deutlichem Abstand vor der Zeitung "Bild" als die wichtigsten Leitmedien unter den deutschen Tageszeitungen genannt. Neben ihnen gelten auch die Wochenzeitungen "Der Spiegel", "Stern" und "Die Zeit" als einflussreiche Leitmedien.…”

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Das Grundgesetz als umkämpfte Ordnung. Deutungsmuster in der massenmedialen Berichterstattung anlässlich der Jubiläumstage des Grundgesetzes

Schaal¹,

Ritzi²

2010

Behemoth

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The capitulation of the Nazi government on May 8th, 1945 marks the beginning of the German postwar-period, which is the subject of this article. This date is often called “Stunde Null” (“zero hour”), because it represents a new beginning for the German people after the total breakdown. As such, there remained very little on which they could build, or in which they could believe. In this situation, the “Grundgesetz” – the new German constitution – became an important symbol for the Federal Republic of Germany. We show with the help of a qualitative analysis of newspaper coverage from each of the constitution’s anniversaries that while in the beginning most people were doubtful about the Grundgesetz, it became more and more respected and is today widely appreciated. The results are theoretically positioned in the context of symbolic power and “Deutungsmacht” – the power to influence the general public’s interpretation of political institutions

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Leitmedien und Zielgruppenorgane

Cited by 26 publications

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The BSE Crisis in German Newspapers: Reframing Responsibility

The BSE Crisis in German Newspapers: Reframing Responsibility

Coverage of the Second Intifada and the Gaza War in the German quality press

Das Grundgesetz als umkämpfte Ordnung. Deutungsmuster in der massenmedialen Berichterstattung anlässlich der Jubiläumstage des Grundgesetzes

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