News in a Digital Age - Comparing the Presentation of News Information over Time and Across Media Platforms
This report by the
Rand Corporation presents a quantitative assessment of changes in the presentation of news over the past 30 years and how it varies across platforms. Jennifer Kavanagh, William Marcellino, Jonathan Blakethe
et al consider the linguistic characteristics as
social attitude, sentiment, affect, subjectivity, and
relation with authority in newspapers, broadcast television news, broadcast news and prime-time cable programming, and newspapers and online journalism. The authors suggest that news content has shifted from more-objective event- and context-based reporting to one that is more subjective, relies more on argumentation and advocacy, and includes more emotional appeals. They discuss the implications of these trends for the media ecosystem, particularly the diminishing role of facts and analysis in political discourse.
https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR2900/RR2960/RAND_RR2960.pdf
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