Most read: Infotainment, propaganda and anecdotes in the digital version of Spanish newspapers

  • Coral Morera Hernández Universidad de Valladolid.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/ESMP.55586
Keywords: Daily digital press, infotainment, journalism, knowledge society, audience.

Abstract

This study tries to demonstrate that the daily digital press follow the path defined by television. Since the late eighties, world affairs have occupied a minor space on the news agenda. Internet has established this tendency so the digital press looks like very much to the reality television. We analyze the section “most read” in version digital of five Spanish newspapers: El País, El Mundo, ABC, Libertad Digital and El Confidencial in order to determine the increase of infotainment component in a period of maximum interest, characterized by political disaffection, citizen apathy and the disappearance of public debate.

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Morera Hernández C. (2017). Most read: Infotainment, propaganda and anecdotes in the digital version of Spanish newspapers. Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico, 23(1), 117-133. https://doi.org/10.5209/ESMP.55586
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Vol. 23 No. 1 (2017)
Section
Studies

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