Interpretive journalism in political news in Spain: a comparative analysis with 15 countries
Keywords:
Political news, interpretive journalism, opinion, media, Spain.
Abstract
This article starts from the assumption that a low percentage of interpretive journalism would affect adversely the quality of political information and could foster citizens’ apathy towards politics. Its purpose is to analyse the presence of interpretive journalism in media’s coverage of political news in Spain and to compare it with the one of 13 European countries, the United States and Israel. The results show that political news in Spanish media contains less interpretive journalism than in the other countries; it follows the tendency of occidental journalism to incorporate interpretation into informative texts; it is characterized by a tendency to include comments; and it contains more pieces of news with interpretive elements in commercial media than in public media.Downloads
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Published
2018-04-17
How to Cite
Parratt Fernández S., de Miguel Pascual R. y Berganza Conde R. (2018). Interpretive journalism in political news in Spain: a comparative analysis with 15 countries. Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico, 24(1), 295-310. https://doi.org/10.5209/ESMP.59951
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