The Election News Story on Russian Television: A World Apart from Viewers

Slavic Review ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ellen Mickiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Focus Groups ◽  
Television News ◽  
The Other ◽  
News Story ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Viewpoint Diversity ◽  
Electoral Campaign ◽  
Election News

Winning elections is so vital for Russian leaders that competing viewpoints on national television news channels have been scotched, together with the channels that broadcast them. This study examines the other side of the screen: how participants in focus groups in four Russian cities process national channels' treatments of an important regional electoral campaign. The study was conducted during the last period in which viewpoint diversity was still available via TV-6. Unlike findings about other news stories, election stories appear to have little connection to viewers' experiences and values and deprive them of using familiar heuristics to make sense of the stories. For the public, the election story is a genre apart, framed by the same confusing template no matter what the office or region. Even TV-6, soon to be shuttered, broadcast its combative message using that template, thus extinguishing any opportunity for identifying genuine diversity and leaving the audience unable to distinguish between state and private channels, something they easily did for other types of stories. Election stories only cue other election stories. It is mainly younger, "post-Soviet" participants who bring an alternative frame to watching: norms, acquired through their education, by which election stories in a democracy ought to be constructed.

Law, Love, and Marriage: Television News and the Production of Publicity in North India

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 224-243
Author(s):  
Amrita Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Television News ◽  
North India ◽  
News Story ◽  
Cultural Scripts ◽  
Daily News ◽  
Breaking News ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Social Scripts ◽  
Love Marriage

Journalism’s mandate is a paradoxical one: to publicize stories of social injustice and sustain their visibility in the public domain, while battling the decay of publicity that is inherent in the very genre of information that is daily news. In this article, I argue that the legitimacy and credibility that Hindi crime journalists create for stories relies on their keen understanding of a complex terrain of institutional scripts and social actions from which the news stories themselves emerge. Analyzing a breaking news story on Hindi channels in 2011, featuring a secret marriage, kinship role inversion, and a woman’s public plea for protection from family intimidation, the article explores the complex interpenetration of journalistic, institutional, and social scripts that make up the fraught terrain of “love marriage” in North India. I show, first, how journalists remediate the authority of photographic images through the news image to secure credibility for the story; second, how they locate the story within local and global discourses of criminality and “honor” that fits it into recognizable journalistic storylines. I conclude by suggesting that the production of publicity in television news, in which industrial constraints and the pressure for ratings plays a substantial role, nevertheless relies on existing institutional discourses and social norms with respect to the framing of love, marriage, and criminality. To understand how 24-hour news cycles generate sensationalism, we cannot ignore the sociological ground from which the news stories emerge and through which they circulate to reinforce or reinvent normative cultural scripts.

You can’t beat the feeling: How emotional responses to exemplars in news stories affect perceptions of expert sources and the message of the news story

2021 ◽  
Vol 00 (00) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Lene Heiselberg ◽  
Morten Skovsgaard
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Response ◽  
Electrodermal Activity ◽  
Television News ◽  
Base Rate ◽  
News Story ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Conflicting Information ◽  
Rate Information ◽  
Personal Accounts ◽  
Main Message

Journalists include ordinary people as exemplars – also known as case sources – in news stories to illustrate the general issue through their personal accounts. These accounts from exemplars tend to evoke emotions in the audience and carry greater weight than base rate information when people form perceptions or attitudes on the problem at hand. In this study, drawing on a news story in which an expert source and an exemplar provide conflicting information, we explore viewers’ emotional response to the exemplar and their perceptions of the expert source and the main message of the news story. We do this by presenting participants with two versions of a television news story – one with and one without an exemplar. We measure participants’ emotional response through a combination of open-ended and close-ended self-reports and directly through electrodermal activity, and we explore their perception of sources and the message of the story through open-ended questions. We find that viewers experience increased arousal when they watch the personal account of an exemplar, and that they tend to interpret the base rate information in the light of the exemplar’s account. Furthermore, some respondents tend to delegitimize the expert source that contradicts the account of the exemplar. We discuss the implications that these results have for journalists and provide tentative advice on which measures journalists can take to counter such effects.

Crystallising the official narrative: News discourses about the killings from the Philippine government’s campaign against illegal drugs

Journalism ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 146488491986782 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryll Ruth R Soriano ◽  
Clarissa C David ◽  
Jenna Mae Atun
Keyword(s):  
Zero Tolerance ◽  
Television News ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Zero Tolerance Policy ◽  
The Media ◽  
State Responses ◽  
Selection Of

News media’s construction of crime and drugs can shape and change public perceptions and influence popular acceptance of policy and state responses. In this way, media, through selection of sources and framing of narratives, act as important agents of social control, either independently or indirectly by state actors. This article examines how the Philippine government’s anti-drug campaign, and the thousands of deaths resulting from them, has been depicted by the media to the public. We conducted a discourse analysis of television news stories to extract dominant frames and narratives, finding a pattern of over-privileging of State authority as a source, resulting in a monolithic message of justifying the killing of suspects. Furthermore, the ‘event-focused’ slant, which dominates the character of reports by media, inevitably solidifies the narrative that the deaths are a necessary consequence of a national public safety campaign. By relying almost exclusively on this narrative, to the exclusion of alternative frames, the media amplifies and crystallises the state’s narrative. As we critically examine how drugs, drug use and the zero-tolerance policy are positioned through discourse in news texts, the article raises important implications to the ethics and role of journalism in politics and provides explanations relating to crime-reporting norms, values and media organisation realities in the country.

scholarly journals Translating Genre of News Stories and the Correlated Grammar in Analysing Student Translation Errors

2014 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 373-396
Author(s):  
Gyung Hee Choi
Keyword(s):  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Translation Studies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Large Majority ◽  
News Story ◽  
News Reporting ◽  
Functional Linguistics ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Translation Errors ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

In translation studies, genre and grammar have each flourished in their own right as a subject of study by a number of scholars. But research solely dedicated to the complementary relations between genre and grammar has been rare, particularly from the translation education perspective. Neither genre nor grammar can function properly without the other in a text because context (genre) and ‘wording’ (grammar) are inseparable. The aim of this paper is to examine the correlation between genre structure and grammar in the analysis of errors in student translations of news story texts. Drawing on Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL), translations of two subtypes of news-reporting texts from English to Korean are analyzed. The main data include two source texts and their translations by nine Masters’students. The findings of this paper show that a large majority of translation mistakes arise from a lack of knowledge of genre structure and its interconnection with logical meaning (how clauses, sentences and paragraphs are combined). The research reported in this paper indicates that genre structure and grammar together constitute useful resources for teaching the translation of news-reporting texts, with more studies of genre structure in other subject fields desired.

scholarly journals Archaeology in the Czech Media: Does anyone care?

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zdeněk Šámal
Keyword(s):  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Television News ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media Convergence ◽  
The Public ◽  
Online Platforms ◽  
Television Broadcasting ◽  
Output Efficiency

This article discusses the possibilities and effectiveness of the presentation of archaeological information and topics in Czech Television News in the context of continuing media convergence. Comparisons are made between the output efficiency in linear television broadcasting and online platforms. Quantitative analysis is given of audience and attendance data on five particular archaeological themes prepared by the public service television news. This is a view from the 'other side'.

The role of language in television news violence

1991 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-16
Author(s):  
Paul Paridaen
Keyword(s):  
Television News ◽  
The Other ◽  
News Stories ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One

Abstract This paper analyzes the role of language in the perception of violence in television news stories. 240 people were asked to watch and/or listen to news stories and then to record their perception of the information. The difference between perceived violence from pictures only on the one hand, and spoken narrative with or without pictures on the other, was highly significant, indicating that the spoken narrative was responsible for the perception of violence in the stories.

Wiki Journalism

2010 ◽  
pp. 383-391
Author(s):  
Joseph E. Burns
Keyword(s):  
Hurricane Katrina ◽  
Virginia Tech ◽  
News Story ◽  
Traditional Media ◽  
Participatory Media ◽  
The Public ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Participatory Journalism ◽  
The Future

Wiki journalism is a format of participatory journalism in which citizens are encouraged to add to, or modify, a wiki-based news story. Although the process is relatively new and the mainstream media still seem wary to accept the concept, the public has begun to recognize the potential of wiki journalism as a form of reporting. Wiki journalism has claimed success in the primary coverage of large news stories (for example, Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007) and in being the first source to provide images, sound, and first-hand accounts. The technology is already in place for citizenbased journalism to become a true new branch of media. However, critics of wiki journalism point out that this type of journalism is often based more on opinion than fact. Another concern is that when it comes to journalistic ethics and the law, participatory media do not function under the same set of rules as the traditional media. The author maintains that the future of wiki journalism depends on whether or not this novel news format can stand on its own.

Old-Growth Forests on Network News: News Sources and the Framing of An Environmental Controversy

1996 ◽  
Vol 73 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol M. Liebler ◽  
Jacob Bendix
Keyword(s):  
Television News ◽  
Network News ◽  
The Other ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
News Stories ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Old Growth Forest ◽  
Environmental Controversy ◽  
Source Use ◽  
Two Sides

The old-growth forest debate involves two sides (“procut” and “prosave”) presenting competing views of the issue. Television news stories may reflect one or the other of these frames through (1) choice of sources, (2) choice of visuals, and (3) reporter's summary remarks. We examined four years of coverage on ABC, CBS, and NBC, and found that while the distribution of visuals was inconclusive, source use and reporter wrap-ups predominantly reflected the procut frame. This may be because the procut frame emphasized an unambiguous conflict that was more amenable to brief explanations.

scholarly journals Quantifying and comparing web news portals’ article salience using the VoxPopuli tool

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Duje Bonacci ◽  
Antonija Jelinić ◽  
Jelena Jurišić ◽  
Lucija Vesnić-Alujević
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
News Article ◽  
News Story ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Daily News ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Web News ◽  
Relative Salience

VoxPopuli tool enables quantification of absolute and relative salience of news articles published on daily news web portals. Obtained numerical values for the two types of salience enable direct comparison of audience impact of different news articles in specified time period. Absolute salience of a news article in a specified time period is determined as the total number of distinct readers who commented on the story in that period. Hence, articlesthat appear on web portals with larger audiences will in general be (absolutely) more salient as there are more potential commentators to comment on them. On the other hand, relative salience of a particular article during a particular time period is calculated as the quotient of a number of distinct readers who comented on that particular story and the number of all readers who in the same period commented on any news story published on the same news portal. As such relative salience will always be a number between 0 and 1, irrespective of the popularity of particular news portal, the (relative) salience of news stories on different news portals can be compared.

Television, Power, and the Public in Russia. By Ellen Mickiewicz. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 220p. $81.00 cloth, $29.99 paper.

2009 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 931-933
Author(s):  
W. Lance Bennett
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Television News ◽  
The Other ◽  
Political Leaders ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
The Public ◽  
Set Up

This book opens and closes with the puzzle of how Russian rulers can control, distort, and bend the news to their own ends without worrying about how the audience receives it. On its first page, Ellen Mickiewicz asks: “[W]ouldn't these political leaders want anxiously to know what viewers make of the news?” And on its last page (p. 206) we are told that “political leaders and broadcasters persist in imagining an undifferentiated, unsophisticated mass on the other side of the screen.” While there is no direct evidence in the rest of the book to indicate that leaders do not know what to make of their audience, or that they assume it to be an undifferentiated, unsophisticated mass, these assumptions set up an interesting look at what audiences actually make of television news in Russia.

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