Laughing Our Way to a Stronger Democracy: Political Comedy’s Potential to Equalize Political Interest in Community College Students

What effect does political comedy have on political interest? Through an experimental design, changes in political interest are measured through a pre and posttest, comparing groups randomly assigned to watch The Daily Show, NBC Nightly News, Entertainment Tonight and a no-exposure group. Models indicate political comedy significantly affects political interest, measured through a unique 40-point index.     

News Media Use and Political Engagement Among Adolescents: An Analysis of Virtuous Circles Using Panel Data

This study analyzes reinforcing spirals between news media use and two manifestations of political engagement: political interest and participation intention. Drawing on a three-wave panel study among adolescents, we test the Virtuous Circle Thesis (VCT) in both an online and an offline setting, by distinguishing between selection effects and media effects as key ingredients of the VCT. Overall, the findings lend mixed support to the general argument. While the relationship between specific forms of news media use and political interest appears to be driven primarily by selection effects, reciprocal relations were found mainly between television news and participation intention. The VCT assumption of reciprocal influences was supported most clearly when adolescents’ total news media use was considered. Taken together, virtuous circles appeared to operate rather similarly online and offline.     

新闻自由与新闻侵权的法理学思考--从权利与权力的视角出发

新闻自由与新闻侵权的矛盾是法学与新闻学共同关注的边缘性学术课题,就法学领域来说,学者们大都从宪法学和民法学的角度予以探讨,而笔者发现:新闻自由本身是一种特殊权利,新闻侵权中所侵犯的对象表现为权利和在一定程度上的权力。所以,如果从法理学的角度入手,我们则不难看出:新闻自由与新闻侵权的矛盾是权利之间和权利与在一定程度上的权力之间的冲突在舆论领域的表现。     

Trustworthiness: the Commentators

Mark Thompson deplores the decline in the public trust of government and of public service institutions such as the BBC. But there has also been a decline in another form of trust: government's trust in the ability of professionals such as doctors and teachers to deliver high quality public services. And, unlike Thompson's type of trust, this decline was inevitable, because it was based on untenable assumptions concerning professional motivation. The author discusses the importance of trust in an unwritten constitution, including trust in the use made of public resources, trust that appointments are being made on merit, trust that the civil service is ‘speaking truth unto power’ behind the scenes and ultimately trust that it retains the ability to serve future governments. In a world where trust in institutions is diminishing, there are still surprising levels of trust in the world of private philanthropy. The public are only too ready to give donations without seeking to question, especially in the wake of major disasters. Yet the nature of aid agencies has changed dramatically in the past thirty years into major global enterprises with sophisticated media and marketing operations. In this case a greater degree of scepticism from those who donate and paradoxically less trust might actually result in better outcomes from aid and better use of funding. Trust is critical to the mission of the FCO. The public needs to trust the competence and sound judgment of the professional diplomats. The diplomats themselves need to be able to rely on the commonsense of their fellow colleagues. Ministers and diplomats need to trust each other. And other governments need to have confidence in the discretion of their British counterparts. This is an increasing challenge in the world of instant news. Trust can be quickly lost by indiscreet or self‐serving revelations. But the key is to be as open and transparent as possible about the processes of diplomacy. A new survey commissioned by the British Journalism Review demonstrates that public confidence in journalism has collapsed over the last five years. This is particularly true for the commercial broadcasters ITV and Channel 4, whose journalism has traditionally commanded as much public esteem as the BBC. Trust in the BBC and print journalists has also declined, and journalism suffered more than any of the other 16 occupational groups being assessed. This is partly due to the cumulative effect of various “fakery” scandals that have afflicted broadcasters over the last 18 months and partly down to a more widespread cynicism directed at those in authority.     

“新闻审判”与犯罪嫌疑人、被告人权利保护

新闻审判,是指新闻舆论超越司法程序,干预、影响司法独立和公正的现象。新闻媒体在报道刑事司法活动中的新闻审判现象,不仅影响了司法机关的独立审判,也侵犯了犯罪嫌疑人、被告人的公民权利。而后者往往被忽视。应在研究我国媒体新闻审判现象的独特成因及危害性的基础上,进行相关制度设计。     

侦查适度公开原则与犯罪新闻报道

犯罪侦查活动的有效开展离不开群众的参与,而长期形成的保密制度使侦查程序往往是在"屏蔽"指挥的谋略下进行,虽能避免一些法外因素的干扰,但其封闭性也滋生出诸多负面效应。确立侦查适度公开原则,允许新闻媒体对犯罪信息进行恰当报道,不仅有利于破获案件和收集证据,还能在强化公民知情权的同时监督侦查活动的合法进行。     

新闻与广告中的逆向思维

人类在社会实践中形成了多种多样的思维模式,逆向思维是其中的一种。在新闻与广告的创作及传播活动中,它帮助人们扩大思维空间。因此,应当有意识地培养这种思维能力。     

城市电视新闻评论节目的现状分析与对策研究

在央视舆论监督《焦点访谈》的大旗下,地方舆论监督类栏目遍地开花。人口少于100万的小城市,由于新闻资源的相对狭窄和地方人际关系的复杂,往往在度过一个高峰期后,进入难于突破的平台期。突破与发展成为地方电视台舆论监督栏目生存的关键。     

跨世纪军事记者的素质要求--从江永红军事新闻写作特色谈起

江永红是在改革开放中成长起来的我军新一代军事记者的优秀代表.他的军事新闻采写特色及追求奋斗的历程启示我们军事新闻工作者要有"识为体才为用"的智能结构、"若无新变,不能代雄"的创新精神、"风格也是人"的气质性格,以及怀抱荆山之玉、手握灵蛇之珠的学识修养,这是跨世纪军事新闻工作者走上成功之路的必备素质.     

Welfare state reforms and mass media attention: Evidence from three European democracies

The mass media is conventionally assumed to play an important role in welfare state politics. So far, however, we have very little systematic theorizing or empirical evidence of when and how the mass media reports on welfare state reforms. Building on news value theory and the welfare state reform literature, we develop a set of hypotheses about mass media reporting on welfare state reforms. We argue that mass media attention is conditioned not only by the direction of reforms, with cuts getting more attention than expansions, but also by the election platform that the incumbent party ran on in the last election as well as by the policy reputation of the government. Drawing on a new dataset including about 4,800 news articles in British, Danish and German quality newspapers from 1995 to 2014, we find supporting empirical evidence of our expectations.