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The necessity of
investigating garbage
The menacing anachronism of
contemporary journalism studies
a Dutch perspective
Starting point: the NRC Handelsblad
debate
Changes in the Dutch quality newspaper
Reproach of tabloidization
The classical daily with its enlightenment program of Lux and Libertas, dedicates too much space to personal stories, emotion,
lunch-interviews, gossip and other forms of tabloid journalism
Also: loss for society
Tabloidization as an important aspect
of nowadays journalism. But……
My paper: an odd man out
Paradigm study
Literature study
Research questions
Literature study
Just one theme has been exhaustively investigated:
The question of tabloidization itself.
But the results are completely contradictory
‘We lack concepts, we need clear
terms’
‘It is hard to think of other concepts that are so important and popular and at the same time so
poorly defined and theorized as soft news.’
Lack of interest is the more strange
because…
things are changing (the buzzword of
the moment), very quickly,
a change nobody can stop
(and as far as can been seen with tabloidization as a dominant tendency)
Source: Colin Sparks & John Tulloch: Tabloid Tales (2000)
Long, international tradition of
journalism studies
Walter Lippmann
Journalists are public intellectuals who
‘provide not only the facts but also the formats, norms and rhetorics that citizens employ to develop their opinions’ (about public life, politics, economics &
sports).
Some important changes
Blurring of differences (as shown)
Invasion of non-professionals in the field (end of monopoly)
Growing consciousness of narrow-mindedness of journalism studies (influence of cultural & historical
studies)
Market pressure (competition, user oriented)
Weltbild of public & students
Research 1
Research 2
Subjects of future study
What are we talking about? The nature of the blurring & the truth of the lack of study of popular journalism
The history of a contempt
The effects of popular journalism in past & present
Definitions, terms, language, lay out, image use, literature
The nature of today’s change (update Sparks)
Popular journalism & modern citizenship (I-epistomology, Ratgeberjournalismus, first person media)
Ethics of journalism in a consumer society
The necessity of
investigating garbage
University of Applied Sciences, Utrecht School of Journalism
Subjects of future study
What are we talking about? The nature of the blurring & the truth of the lack of study of popular journalism
The history of a contempt
The effects of popular journalism in past & present
Definitions, terms, language, lay out, image use, literature
The nature of today’s change (update Sparks)
Popular journalism & modern citizenship (I-epistomology, Ratgeberjournalismus, first person media)
Ethics of journalism in a consumer society
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