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Newhagen, John E. – Journalism Quarterly, 1994
Analyzes television news stories broadcast during the Persian Gulf War for censorship disclaimers, the censoring source, and the producing network. Discusses results in terms of both production- and viewer-based differences. Considers the question of whether censorship "works" in terms of unanticipated results related to story…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Censorship, Content Analysis, Higher Education
Lind, Rebecca Ann; Rarick, David L. – 1991
Television journalism has long been the object of study by scholars of news media ethics. A study examined the reasoning process and the criteria for judgment used by viewers when evaluating possibly problematic television (TV) news content, and analyzed these criteria as they are applied to ethical issues and problems in TV newscasts. Thirty-four…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Ethics, Evaluation Criteria, Higher Education
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Paridaen, Paul – Australian Review of Applied Linguistics, 1990
A study of 240 TV viewers who watched or listened to and watched news stories showed highly significant differences in their recorded perceptions of the information. The spoken narrative was responsible for the perception of violence in the stories. Discussion of the results also touches on the subject of verbal violence. (14 references) (CP)
Descriptors: Audience Response, Broadcast Journalism, Language Role, Language Styles
Rarick, David L.; Lind, Rebecca Ann – 1993
Three empirical studies focused on viewer reactions to ethical issues in television news, and on actions audience members felt were appropriate to control possibly unethical behaviors in television broadcasting. The first study was a 12-minute telephone survey of 293 randomly selected adults in Minneapolis-St. Paul (Minnesota) in 1989 to determine…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Ethics, Models, News Reporting
Hudson, Timothy J. – 1987
The ways in which, and the extent to which, changes in viewer positioning mediate the diegesis of commercial television news is problematic, since television news is generally considered to be "non-fiction." Diegesis can be defined as the depicted real-world. The choices made in depicting the scene have implications as to the positioning…
Descriptors: Audience Analysis, Audience Awareness, Audience Response, Broadcast Television