The Effect of Soft News on Public Attachment to the News

Nguyen, An

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2012.664318

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“…Mainly based on market shares and survey data, Patterson (2003) and Prior (2003) claim that the audience for soft news in the US remains relatively small compared to hard news, and that it might even be shrinking (see also Nguyen, 2012). Other scholars suggest that the soft news audience is growing without necessarily leading to a declining audience for hard news (Baum, 2003).…”

Section: Concern 2: Towards Declining Quality Of Newsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Political communication in a high-choice media environment: a challenge for democracy?

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Strömbäck

Aalberg

et al. 2017

Annals of the International Communication Association

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During the last decennia media environments and political communication systems have changed fundamentally. These changes have major ramifications for the political information environments and the extent to which they aid people in becoming informed citizens. Against this background, the purpose of this article is to review research on key changes and trends in political information environments and assess their democratic implications. We will focus on advanced postindustrial democracies and six concerns that are all closely linked to the dissemination and acquisition of political knowledge: (1) declining supply of political information, (2) declining quality of news, (3) increasing media concentration and declining diversity of news, (4) increasing fragmentation and polarization, (5) increasing relativism and (6) increasing inequality in political knowledge. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Section: Concern 2: Towards Declining Quality Of Newsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the US, that segment consists of younger (18-35) females. Since this group tends to favor entertaining and soft news more than the average news consumer, this demand might push commercial news media to further sideline substantial issue news (see also Nguyen, 2012).…”

Section: Concern 2: Towards Declining Quality Of Newsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Political communication in a high-choice media environment: a challenge for democracy?

Aelst

Strömbäck

Aalberg

et al. 2017

Annals of the International Communication Association

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347

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“…Podemos considerar el establecimiento de la agenda como un indicador de fiabilidad para comprobar cómo se distribuye y jerarquiza el contenido en los telediarios. Por otra parte, aunque este concepto también pueda ser abordado desde el estudio de las rutinas periodísticas, como muestran los trabajos de Nguyen (2012), Tuchman (1983) o Walzer Moskovic y Retis Rivas (2008), nuestro estudio se centra en el contenido emitido, sin negar la utilidad futura de contrastar estos datos con otros que involucren a los propios profesionales.…”

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Calidad informativa: un estudio comparativo de los servicios informativos de las televisiones autonómicas públicas y privadas en España

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Este trabajo plantea el objetivo general de crear una herramienta para evaluar la calidad informativa de los telenoticias de cuatro televisiones autonómicas españolas, a partir de los siguientes indicadores: rasgos formales, construcción y jerarquización, agenda temática, criterios de noticiabilidad, tipología y tratamiento y distribución geográfica del contenido. Se aplica un análisis de contenido con matriz propia de variables sobre una muestra de 32 informativos y 1327 unidades en horario de máxima audiencia. Se comprueba la utilidad de la matriz para evaluar la calidad informativa. El análisis detecta la tendencia hacia un modelo de infoentretenimiento.

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“…The claim that soft news would attract broader audiences has, however, been questioned, since audience shares of soft news do not outnumber those of hard news (Belt & Just, 2008;Graber, 2003;Nguyen, 2012;Patterson, 2003). More extremely, soft news possibly even turns people off from politics and journalism, because relatively small issues are covered so frequently in very dramatized and alarming ways that people are less surprised by yet another "breaking news story" (Bennett, 2003), which might explain decreasing turn out rates among soft news viewers (Rittenberg et al, 2012).…”

Section: Soft News With Hard Consequences?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While it is well conceivable that soft news exposure leads to public cynicism, and while this matter is subject of popular and academic debate (Bennett, 2003;Nguyen, 2012), it has hitherto not been empirically addressed. Political cynicism can be defined as "an individual's attitude, consisting of a conviction of the incompetence and immorality of politicians, political institutions and / or the political system as a whole" (Schyns & Nuus, 2007, p. 97).…”

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Soft News With Hard Consequences? Introducing a Nuanced Measure of Soft Versus Hard News Exposure and Its Relationship With Political Cynicism

Boukes

Boomgaarden

2014

Communication Research

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Soft news with hard consequences? Introducing a nuanced measure of soft versus hard news exposure and its relationship with political cynicism Boukes, M.; Boomgaarden, H. Disclaimer/Complaints regulationsIf you believe that digital publication of certain material infringes any of your rights or (privacy) interests, please let the Library know, stating your reasons. In case of a legitimate complaint, the Library will make the material inaccessible and/or remove it from the website. Please Ask the Library: http://uba.uva.nl/en/contact, or a letter to: Library of the University of Amsterdam, Secretariat, Singel 425, 1012 WP Amsterdam, The Netherlands. You will be contacted as soon as possible. Download date: 13 May 2018Running head: SOFT NEWS WITH HARD CONSEQUENCES? AbstractThe possibly detrimental consequences of soft news are subject of popular and academic debate. This study investigates how watching particular news genres -soft versus hard -relates to cynicism about politics among Dutch citizens. A nuanced and novel scale measuring relative exposure to soft versus hard news is introduced using nonparametric unidimensional unfolding. The analysis of three public opinion surveys demonstrates a strong relationship between people's position on this hard-versus-soft-news exposure scale and political cynicism. People who watched relatively more soft news were more cynical about politics than people who watched relatively more hard news. This relationship was not conditional on individuals' level of political knowledge and interest.

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The Effect of Soft News on Public Attachment to the News

Cited by 31 publications

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Political communication in a high-choice media environment: a challenge for democracy?

Political communication in a high-choice media environment: a challenge for democracy?

Calidad informativa: un estudio comparativo de los servicios informativos de las televisiones autonómicas públicas y privadas en España

Soft News With Hard Consequences? Introducing a Nuanced Measure of Soft Versus Hard News Exposure and Its Relationship With Political Cynicism

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