The Biased Truth

2019 ◽  
pp. 97-110
Author(s):  
Andre Nicholson
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Local News ◽  
News Stories ◽  
News Programs

Consumers of news should expect to consume reports, which are an accurate and unbiased reflection of local, national, and world events. However, due to limitations that affect the packaging and presentation of many news stories today, consumers may not be experiencing a true reflection of those issues. This exploratory study examined three genres of news for objectivity and bias in the reporting of news stores: local news, national news, and satire news. The study found that although local news reporters attempt to report news stories with an objective narrative, it is often the news story's subject that impedes the process of objectivity. National and satire news programs also lose their objectivity based on the narrative presented by the hosts of the program.

The Biased Truth

2018 ◽  
pp. 185-198
Author(s):  
Andre Nicholson
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Local News ◽  
News Stories ◽  
News Programs

Consumers of news should expect to consume reports, which are an accurate and unbiased reflection of local, national, and world events. However, due to limitations that affect the packaging and presentation of many news stories today, consumers may not be experiencing a true reflection of those issues. This exploratory study examined three genres of news for objectivity and bias in the reporting of news stores: local news, national news, and satire news. The study found that although local news reporters attempt to report news stories with an objective narrative, it is often the news story's subject that impedes the process of objectivity. National and satire news programs also lose their objectivity based on the narrative presented by the hosts of the program.

Another Way to Tell the News, Another Way to Read the News: Immersion and Information in Narrative Journalism

Poetics Today ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-423
Author(s):  
Marie Vanoost
Keyword(s):  
Exploratory Study ◽  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
Specific Kind ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract While Paul Ricoeur's Time and Narrative (1990) was only concerned with fictional and historical narratives, its influence on narrative theory has been much broader. Ricoeur's reflections expanded into the field of journalism, among other areas, notably through the notion of media narrative (or récit médiatique) as defined by Marc Lits (1997a). Following Lits, Ricoeur's legacy—and, more specifically, the distinction it inspired between immersive and informative narratives (Baroni 2018)—has been used to shed light on a specific kind of journalism often referred to as narrative journalism, that is, journalism that uses the writing techniques of fiction to tell news stories. This article further examines the dialectic between immersion and information in narrative journalism by exploring both journalists’ goals when writing their texts and receivers’ experiences when reading them. First, interviews with journalists show that they are largely aware of this dialectic and purposefully use an immersive form to help readers better understand information. Then, an exploratory study with readers reveals that they claim to look mostly for information yet seem to favor immersive narratives.

scholarly journals Does Numeracy in Digital Journalism Increase Story Believability?

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory Gondwe ◽  
Evan Rowe ◽  
Evariste Some
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Experimental Design ◽  
Exploratory Study ◽  
The United States ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Journalism Studies ◽  
Audience Appeal ◽  
Digital Journalism

This exploratory study contributes to the literature on numeracy in digital journalism studies by theoretically incorporating the audience/news consumers. While most studies have focused on journalists’ perception and role in the use of numeracy, this study examines how audience perceive stories with numerical values. Through an experimental design, and by comparing the United States, Zambia, and Tanzania, the study was able to demonstrate that news stories with numerical values diminished audience/readers’ affective consumption. In other words, news stories with numerical values were negatively associated with audience appeal. However, individuals with a lower understanding of probabilistic and numerical concepts seemed to trust news stories with numbers more than those with a higher level of numeracy. This was especially true in Zambia and Tanzania where most participants recorded lower numeracy levels. The overall sample in all the three countries seemed to favor news stories with less or no numeracy.

neutralization of dialectal features of the speech of Belém/PA and Recife/PE in telejournalistc narrations

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-32
Author(s):  
Gisele Braga Souza ◽  
Ana Carolina Constantini
Keyword(s):  
Brazilian Portuguese ◽  
The State ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Local News ◽  
News Programs

The objective of this article is to analyze the speech used in the local news programs in Belém, capital of the state of Pará, and in Recife, capital of the state of Pernambuco, in order to verify how it is characterized. For this, speech samples were collected from three reporters native to the capital of Pará, as well as three news presenters and two reporters native to the capital of Pernambuco, using videos made available on the Internet to verify if they use the characteristics of their dialects or if they meet a standard norm of telejournalistic discourse. It starts from the hypothesis that some of these characteristics are smoothed or erased as an attempt to regularize or normalize them and thus try to follow a pattern of pronunciation of more prestigious forms in Brazilian Portuguese. From the realization of the research, attempts to neutralize the dialectal features of the speech of Belém and Recife were verified, based on the statements of the professionals analyzed. However, in Belém, the smoothing of the dialectal features doesn't come to be predominant, already in Recife the neutralization of the dialectal features is much more frequente.

scholarly journals Exploring xenophobic and homophobic attitudes in Malta: Linking the perception of social practice with textual analysis

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Stavros Assimakopoulos ◽  
Rebecca Vella Muskat
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Textual Analysis ◽  
Local News ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Made In

AbstractReporting on research undertaken under the auspices of the C.O.N.T.A.C.T. project, the present paper investigates the roots of xenophobic and homophobic attitudes in Malta and the extent to which these can be pinpointed in the lexical choices made in discriminatory comments posted online in reaction to local news stories pertaining to migrants and members of the LGBTIQ community. Adopting

Audience Selectivity of Local Television Newscasts

1992 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carolyn A. Lin
Keyword(s):  
Telephone Survey ◽  
Television News ◽  
Local News ◽  
Local Television ◽  
Sports Programs ◽  
Carry Over ◽  
News Programs ◽  
Carry Over Effect

Audiences make television news choices based on several factors, such as liking the newscaster, the content and scope of news programs, or from the carry-over effect of the preceding or following programs. Here, evaluation of the anchor person appeared to be most important in picking a weather program, less important for selected news and sports programs. Viewers reported that quality and scope of local news also drew them to particular programs. Findings are based on a telephone survey.

scholarly journals Local News and National Politics

2019 ◽  
Vol 113 (2) ◽  
pp. 372-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
GREGORY J. MARTIN ◽  
JOSHUA McCRAIN
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Local Politics ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Local News ◽  
National Politics ◽  
Local Television ◽  
The Us ◽  
Media Markets ◽  
News Programs

The level of journalistic resources dedicated to coverage of local politics is in a long-term decline in the US news media, with readership shifting to national outlets. We investigate whether this trend is demand- or supply-driven, exploiting a recent wave of local television station acquisitions by a conglomerate owner. Using extensive data on local news programming and viewership, we find that the ownership change led to (1) substantial increases in coverage of national politics at the expense of local politics, (2) a significant rightward shift in the ideological slant of coverage, and (3) a small decrease in viewership, all relative to the changes at other news programs airing in the same media markets. These results suggest a substantial supply-side role in the trends toward nationalization and polarization of politics news, with negative implications for accountability of local elected officials and mass polarization.

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