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Oct 25, 2023 · The article explores if and to what extent traditional media, namely TV, radio and the printed press, are still more popular than new media when it comes to news consumption within the EU. It also looks at the level of trust in different news sources across EU member states.
- Background: Rand’S 2018 Report—Truth Decay
- Quantifying How News Presentation Has Changed Over Three Decades
- Rand’S Analysis of News Media Text and Transcripts
- Implications of Findings
- Endnotes
- Topics
RAND’s interest and motivation in investigating the presentation of news for the News in a Digital Age report emerged from observations in a 2018 RAND report, Truth Decay.2That report pointed to four trends—increasing disagreement about objective facts, data, and analysis; a blurring of the line between fact and opinion; an increasing relative volu...
RAND’s research team began its study of news presentation by examining how new technologies are reshaping the U.S. media industry and ecosystem, changing not just how people consume news but the way that information is produced, shared, and disseminated. This involved looking at recent research into how these changes are affecting news presentation...
In What Measurable Ways Did the Style of News Presentation in Print Journalism Change Between 1989 and 2017?
The RAND team found that much of the language and tone of reporting in the New York Times, Washington Post, and St. Louis Post-Dispatchremained constant over the past 30 years, but the team also found quantifiable changes in certain linguistic areas between the pre-2000 and post-2000 periods. For example, the three newspapers’ reporting before 2000 used language that was more heavily event- and context-based than it was in stories written after 2000; pre-2000 stories also contained more refer...
In What Measurable Ways Did the Style of News Presentation in Broadcast Journalism Change Between 1989 and 2017?
Broadcast television journalism exhibited similar differences in the pre-2000 and post-2000 samples. The RAND team’s text analysis found a gradual shift in broadcast television coverage from more-conventional reporting in the pre-2000 period, during which news stories tended to use precise and concrete language and often turned to public sources of authority, to more-subjective coverage after 2000, when news stories relied less on concrete language and more on unplanned speech, expression of...
How Does the Style of News Presentation in Broadcast Journalism Differ from the Style Used in Prime-Time Cable Programming over the Period from 2000 to 2017?
The RAND team found a starker contrast between broadcast news and prime-time cable presentation after 2000. Compared with news presentation on broadcast television, prime-time programming on cable outlets exhibited a dramatic and quantifiable shift toward subjective, abstract, directive, and argumentative language, with content based more on the expression of opinion than on the provision of facts. This was accompanied by an increase in airtime devoted to advocacy for those opinions in contra...
The general trends observed in the RAND team’s analysis provide initial evidence of a gradual and subtle shift over time and between old and new media toward a more subjective form of journalism that is grounded in personal perspective. The team found evidence of a shift from a journalistic style based on the use of public language, academic regist...
In this brief, platform refers to the means through which news is delivered and consumed. Newspapers, broadcast television, cable television, Internet, and social media are all platforms. (So is ra...Jennifer Kavanagh and Michael D. Rich, Truth Decay: An Initial Exploration of the Diminishing Role of Facts and Analysis in American Public Life, Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND Corporation, RR-2314-RC,...For newspapers, the team chose the three sources with the longest available online, text-based archives. This sample also included two of the largest national newspapers and a leading regional one....These dates were chosen because of two important changes in the U.S. media industry that took place around the year 2000, which make it a good place to divide the data. First, viewership of all thr...- Jennifer Kavanagh, William Marcellino, Jonathan S. Blake, Shawn Smith, Steven Davenport, Mahlet G. T...
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May 28, 2021 · These newspapers could say in their defence that all the information was in the article, eventually. And in libel cases, judges normally do assume that a “reasonable person” reads the whole article. In reality, however, we know that they often don’t. Most of us probably know this from our own experience.
Sep 1, 2017 · Content analyses of large and internationally influential American newspapers show that today only 35% of the front-page articles are traditional, event-centered news articles, down from 69% 25 ...
Mar 24, 2022 · Structurally, a news article is much more straightforward than a feature: In a news article, the most important and timely information appears in the first few sentences, with the remaining facts ...
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May 14, 2019 · Using RAND-Lex, a suite of tools that combine machine learning and text analysis, the researchers considered such linguistic characteristics as social attitude, sentiment, affect, subjectivity, and relation with authority for four comparisons: newspapers before and after 2000 (through 2017), broadcast television news before and after 2000 (through 2000), broadcast news and prime-time cable ...
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Introduction. From a democratic perspective, a key function of news media is to ‘aid citizens in becoming informed’ (Holbert, Citation 2005, p. 511).For the news media to fulfill this function, an important prerequisite is that they provide people with the kind of information they need to be free and self-governing (Kovach & Rosenstiel, Citation 2014; Strömbäck, Citation 2005).
