Superficial, shallow and reactive: How a small state news media covers politics
Abstract This article illustrates how the crisis of the news media is impacting political coverage in Iceland. Perceptions of routine political coverage in the Icelandic media have not been studied before, and this article fills this research gap and situates the Icelandic case within the wider news...
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crdegruyter:10.2478/nor-2021-0018 2024-09-30T14:37:05+00:00 Superficial, shallow and reactive: How a small state news media covers politics Ólafsson, Jón Gunnar 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/nor-2021-0018 https://www.sciendo.com/pdf/10.2478/nor-2021-0018 en eng Walter de Gruyter GmbH http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 Nordicom Review volume 42, issue s2, page 70-86 ISSN 2001-5119 journal-article 2021 crdegruyter https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2021-0018 2024-09-17T04:10:23Z Abstract This article illustrates how the crisis of the news media is impacting political coverage in Iceland. Perceptions of routine political coverage in the Icelandic media have not been studied before, and this article fills this research gap and situates the Icelandic case within the wider news media crisis literature. My exploration is guided by two research questions. The first focuses on how journalists and politicians in Iceland perceive political coverage in the Icelandic media and how the coverage is seen to affect their working practices. The second question concerns how the public in Iceland perceives political news content. Findings show that, according to journalists and politicians, the mix of mainly commercial funding models and the smallness of the media market results in even more superficial and problematic coverage than in larger states. Survey answers illustrate that the public mostly agrees with interviewee perceptions concerning how the Icelandic media covers politics. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland De Gruyter Nordicom Review 42 s2 70 86 |
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Abstract This article illustrates how the crisis of the news media is impacting political coverage in Iceland. Perceptions of routine political coverage in the Icelandic media have not been studied before, and this article fills this research gap and situates the Icelandic case within the wider news media crisis literature. My exploration is guided by two research questions. The first focuses on how journalists and politicians in Iceland perceive political coverage in the Icelandic media and how the coverage is seen to affect their working practices. The second question concerns how the public in Iceland perceives political news content. Findings show that, according to journalists and politicians, the mix of mainly commercial funding models and the smallness of the media market results in even more superficial and problematic coverage than in larger states. Survey answers illustrate that the public mostly agrees with interviewee perceptions concerning how the Icelandic media covers politics. |
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Superficial, shallow and reactive: How a small state news media covers politics |
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Superficial, shallow and reactive: How a small state news media covers politics |
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