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News Coverage about Direct-Democratic Campaigns in a Period of Structural Crisis

Published:2016-06-01 Issue:1 Volume:6 Page:68-104
ISSN:2381-5892
Container-title:Journal of Information Policy
language:en
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Author:

Udris Linards¹,Eisenegger Mark²,Schneider Jörg³

Affiliation:

1. Senior Researcher and Deputy Director, fög—Research Institute for The Public Sphere and Society, University of Zurich

2. Professor of Organizational Communication, University of Salzburg, President Board of Directors of fög—Research Institute for The Public Sphere and Society, University of Zurich

3. Senior Researcher, fög—Research Institute for The Public Sphere and Society, University of Zurich

Abstract

Abstract This article examines whether money talks in political campaign coverage. Analyzing news coverage about twenty-nine recent direct-democratic campaigns in Switzerland, it shows that votes involving expensive campaigns and populist proposals—and ideally both—correlate with high media attention. This favors especially Switzerland's largest party with the most resources, the right-wing populist Swiss People's Party (SVP). A case study of one vote on media policy confirms these patterns and shows that news coverage is also shaped by the vested (self-)interests of media organizations. The results imply that news media, affected by the crisis in journalism, fail to cover a truly wide diversity of actors and topics.

Publisher

The Pennsylvania State University Press

Subject

Public Administration,Sociology and Political Science,Communication,Public Administration,Sociology and Political Science,Communication

Link

https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/psup/information-policy/article-pdf/6/1/68/1332445/jinfopoli_6_2016_68.pdf

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