TY - JOUR
T1 - News pluralism and public media in spain.Televisión española’s regression following a change of government (2012-2013)
AU - Humanes, M. L.
AU - Fernández Alonso, I.
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - © 2015, University of La Laguna. All right reserved. Introduction: This article describes and analyses the policies applicable to Spain’s national public broadcaster’s governance model that were adopted in November 2011, when the conservative party Partido Popular (PP) came to power. The specific reforms and their implications for the News Services of Televisión Española (Spanish Television, TVE) are examined, beside the consequences for the information and the level of pluralism. Methodology: It has conducted a content analysis of two samples from three weeks of the first quarter of 2012 and 2013 (1294 news). Results and conclusions: It was found that the regovernmentalisation of the management bodies of the Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española (Spanish Broadcasting Corporation, RTVE) had increased TVE’s content banalisation to the detriment of major current affairs issues; fewer points of view and sources were observed in the coverage of labour-related news. Besides this regovernmentalisation, interpretative journalism tended to prevail over descriptive journalism, with an increase in the positive tone of economy-related news.
AB - © 2015, University of La Laguna. All right reserved. Introduction: This article describes and analyses the policies applicable to Spain’s national public broadcaster’s governance model that were adopted in November 2011, when the conservative party Partido Popular (PP) came to power. The specific reforms and their implications for the News Services of Televisión Española (Spanish Television, TVE) are examined, beside the consequences for the information and the level of pluralism. Methodology: It has conducted a content analysis of two samples from three weeks of the first quarter of 2012 and 2013 (1294 news). Results and conclusions: It was found that the regovernmentalisation of the management bodies of the Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española (Spanish Broadcasting Corporation, RTVE) had increased TVE’s content banalisation to the detriment of major current affairs issues; fewer points of view and sources were observed in the coverage of labour-related news. Besides this regovernmentalisation, interpretative journalism tended to prevail over descriptive journalism, with an increase in the positive tone of economy-related news.
KW - Broadcasting policy
KW - Content analysis
KW - News pluralism
KW - Political parallelism
KW - Public television
KW - Spain
UR - https://ddd.uab.cat/record/159800
U2 - https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2015-1046
DO - https://doi.org/10.4185/RLCS-2015-1046
M3 - Article
VL - 70
SP - 270
EP - 287
JO - Revista Latina de Comunicacion Social
JF - Revista Latina de Comunicacion Social
SN - 1138-5820
ER -