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The Voice of the People in the News: A Content Analysis of Public Opinion Displays in Routine and Election News
Journalism Studies ( IF 3.604 ) Pub Date : 2020-08-24 , DOI: 10.1080/1461670x.2020.1809498
Kathleen Beckers 1
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ABSTRACT

Reporting on public opinion is an important task of journalists in democracies. There are several ways in which journalists can portray public opinion: (1) opinion polls (2) inferences to public opinion (3) vox pops (4) covering protest and (5) social media references. These public opinion displays vary in how explicitly they refer to public opinion, how representative they are of the larger population and how active the role of citizens is. Based on an extensive content analysis of all public opinion displays in Flemish print and television news, this paper analyzes when and how public opinion is represented in the news and under which circumstances which representations are more likely to be used. Our results show that in routine news, journalists most often turn to general inferences to public opinion in print news and vox pops in television news. Elections strongly influence how public opinion is portrayed in the news, with a large increase in the reporting of polls. However, more implicit public opinion displays based on journalists’ own interpretation of news events still comprise a significant part of public opinion coverage.



中文翻译:

新闻中的人民声音:例行选举新闻中的舆论显示内容分析

摘要

舆论报道是民主国家新闻工作者的重要任务。记者可以通过多种方式描述公众舆论:(1)民意测验(2)对公众舆论的推论(3)vox pops(4)涵盖抗议和(5)社交媒体参考。这些民意展示在以下方面有所不同:它们如何明确地提及民意,它们在更多人口中的代表性如何以及公民的作用如何活跃。在对弗拉芒语印刷和电视新闻中所有民意展示进行广泛的内容分析的基础上,本文分析了新闻中何时以及如何表达民意,以及在哪种情况下更可能使用哪种表达。我们的结果表明,在常规新闻中,记者通常会在印刷新闻和电视新闻中对大众舆论进行一般性推论。选举极大地影响了新闻中舆论的表现方式,民意调查的报道也大大增加。但是,基于记者对新闻事件的自己的解释,更多隐性的舆论显示仍然构成了舆论报道的重要部分。

更新日期:2020-08-24
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