Resilient reporting
Media coverage of Irish elections since 1969
by Kevin Rafter, Michael Breen, Michael Courtney, Iain Mcmenamin, Eoin O'Malley
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At an election rally during the 2016 US presidential election, Donald Trump described the media as, 'bad people - the worst people in the world'. Trump is not the first - nor will he be the last - leader to focus on media hostility towards politicians and the political system. The topic, and its impact on democracy, has long attracted the interest of scholars of political communication. This timely book examines how election news reporting has changed over the last half century in Ireland by means of a unique dataset involving 25m words from newspapers as well as radio and television coverage In a revealing study the authors examine reporting in terms of framing, tone, and the distribution of coverage.They also focus on how the economy has affected election coverage as well as media reporting of leaders and personalities, gender and the effect of the commercial basis of media outlets. The authors evaluate three broad hypotheses about Ireland's election coverage since 1969 - the extent to which the norms of critical impartiality have survived, whether the media has shifted towards hypercritical infotainment, and the extent to which content has been influenced by exogenous factors, that is, political, social and economic factors outside the media itself. The finding - which are drawn from a machine learning computer system involving a huge content analysis study - will interest academics as well as politicians and policy makers internationally.
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At an election rally during the 2016 US presidential election, Donald Trump described the media as, 'bad people - the worst people in the world'. Trump is not the first - nor will he be the last - leader to focus on media hostility towards politicians and the political system. The topic, and its impact on democracy, has long attracted the interest of scholars of political communication. This timely book examines how election news reporting has changed over the last half century in Ireland by means of a unique dataset involving 25m words from newspapers as well as radio and television coverage In a revealing study the authors examine reporting in terms of framing, tone, and the distribution of coverage.They also focus on how the economy has affected election coverage as well as media reporting of leaders and personalities, gender and the effect of the commercial basis of media outlets. The authors evaluate three broad hypotheses about Ireland's election coverage since 1969 - the extent to which the norms of critical impartiality have survived, whether the media has shifted towards hypercritical infotainment, and the extent to which content has been influenced by exogenous factors, that is, political, social and economic factors outside the media itself. The finding - which are drawn from a machine learning computer system involving a huge content analysis study - will interest academics as well as politicians and policy makers internationally.
Author Biography
Kevin Rafter is head of the department of film and media at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire.; ; ; ;
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date February 2019
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781526119971 / 1526119978
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- ReadershipCollege/higher education; Professional and scholarly
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions234 X 156 mm
- Reference Code9190
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