Mistaken Identities: Tabloid and Broadsheet News Discourse

IF 1.7 3区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Javnost-The Public Pub Date : 1998-01-01 DOI:10.1080/13183222.1998.11008680

I. Connell

引用次数: 81

Abstract

AbstractThe author discusses two important perspectives on “tabloidization” and its supposed impact upon news discourses: the polarisation perspective attributes to the changes in news journalism a sharpening differentiation and polarisation between tabloid and broadsheet newspapers, while according to the homogenising view, sensational journalism which once seemed to be confined to the lowbrow media, now spreads to all media. The article argues that tabloidisation debates often do not compare like with like, which results in mistaken conclusions. A case in point is fabulous reportage as a specific form of journalistic discourse that cannot be considered a trivial form of news discourse, but a discourse sui generis, a distinct genre. Consequently, it does not make sense to compare broadsheet news discourse with fabulous reportage in tabloid newspapers; a valid comparison is between tabloid news discourse with broadsheet news discourse. The article presents such a comparative content analysis of news disco...

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错误的身份:小报和大报新闻话语

摘要本文讨论了“小报化”及其对新闻话语的影响的两个重要观点:两极分化观点认为，新闻新闻业的变化导致了小报和大报之间的分化和两极分化，而同质化观点认为，曾经似乎局限于低级媒体的耸人听闻的新闻现在传播到所有媒体。文章认为，小报化的辩论往往不比较同类，从而导致错误的结论。一个典型的例子是神话报道文学，它作为一种特殊的新闻话语形式，不能被认为是一种微不足道的新闻话语形式，而是一种自成一体的话语，一种独特的体裁。因此，将大报新闻话语与小报神话般的报道文学进行比较是没有意义的;小报新闻话语与大报新闻话语之间的比较是有效的。本文对新闻disco的内容进行了比较分析。

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Javnost-The Public COMMUNICATION-

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期刊介绍： Javnost - The Public, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed social and cultural science journal published by the European Institute for Communication and Culture in association with the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, addresses problems of the public sphere on international and interdisciplinary levels. It encourages the development of theory and research, and helps understand differences between cultures. Contributors confront problems of the public, public communication, public opinion, public discourse, publicness, publicity, and public life from a variety of disciplinary and theoretical perspectives.