From Newspaper to Parliament and Back? A Study of Media Attention as Source for and Result of the Dutch Question Hour

Q3 Social Sciences

World Political Science Pub Date : 2016-11-01 DOI:10.1515/wps-2016-0011

Peter van Aelst, Rosa van Santen, Lotte Melenhorst, Luzia Helfer

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Abstract

Abstract This study on the role of media attention for the Dutch question hour answers three questions: to what extent is media attention a source of inspiration for oral parliamentary questions? What explains the newsworthiness of these questions? And what explains the extent of media coverage for the questions posed during the question hour? To address this, we present a content analysis of oral parliamentary questions and related press coverage in five recent years. The results show first that oral questions are usually based on media attention for a topic. Concerns about media influence should however be nuanced: it is not necessarily the coverage itself, but also regularly a political statement that is the actual source of a parliamentary question. The media are thus an important “channel” for the interaction between politicians. Second, our analysis shows that oral questions do not receive media attention naturally. Several news values help to explain the amount of news coverage that questions receive. “Surfing the wave” of news attention for a topic in the days previous to the question hour seems to be the best way to generate media attention.

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从报纸到议会再回来?媒体关注作为荷兰式提问时间的来源和结果研究

本研究探讨媒体关注对荷兰质询时间的作用，回答三个问题:媒体关注在多大程度上是议会口头质询的灵感来源?如何解释这些问题的新闻价值?如何解释媒体对提问时间提出的问题的报道程度?为了解决这个问题，我们对最近五年的口头议会问题和相关新闻报道进行了内容分析。结果表明，首先，口头问题通常是基于媒体对一个话题的关注。然而，对媒体影响的关注应该是微妙的:不一定是报道本身，而且通常是政治声明是议会问题的实际来源。因此，媒体是政治家之间互动的重要“渠道”。其次，我们的分析表明，口头提问不会自然而然地受到媒体的关注。几个新闻值有助于解释问题获得的新闻报道的数量。在提问时间之前的几天里，在新闻关注的浪潮中“冲浪”似乎是吸引媒体关注的最佳方式。

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