This experiment assessed the impact of formal features associated with the packaging of tabloid and standard news on viewer arousal, attention, information recognition, memory, and evaluations of ...news. The flamboyant tabloid packaging style increased arousal and attention but did not have a significant impact on recognition memory or delayed free recall of information. Moreover, viewers found standard versions to be more believable and informative than the tabloid versions of news stories.
This research presents a content analysis of the major British tabloids over the last
decade of the 20th century. Using the conceptual lens of tabloidization and the
framework of McLachlan and ...Golding, this study shows that the coverage of tabloids
can be characterized by a dominance of ‘soft’ and home stories,
by a significant presence of headlines and visuals and a personalized angle of
coverage. Over time, the coverage has become more ‘tabloidized’
in its form and style, but has remained constant in its range of contents.
Theoretically, the results indicate that the evolution of tabloid coverage has been
heterogeneous, which supports the idea that the press can be in a process of
homogenization only in the areas of form and style of coverage, but not in terms of
range of content. Moreover, these changes suggest that tabloidization (as a feature
directly related to tabloids) should not be considered a static concept.
Unlike the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia, where celebrities are often subjected to derision in the tabloid media, the 'New Zealand Woman's Weekly', the country's longest-running ...women's magazine, respects and values its local celebrities. A content analysis of cover lines on the magazine over the past eight decades reveals that although the magazine has adhered to a steadfast formula of celebrating mothers and wives, there has been a steady shift to a focus on the love lives and scandals of foreign celebrities. More recently, however, the magazine has turned its attention to well-known New Zealanders and developed its own brand of celebrity news.
News of the World? Burden, Peter; Dillon, Julia; Hiscocks, Dan ...
2009
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Do the great British public get the press the "Red Tops" think they deserve? Or are the tabloids' pious protestations of public interest really just a self-serving attempt to halt declining ...circulation? Peter Burden examines the News of the World's performancewith its Fake Sheikh and the illegal mobile phone tapping, which lead to a jail sentence for royal reporter Clive Goodman and the resignation of the editor. Burden also highlights the papers hypocrisy when Mazher Mahmood, the Fake Sheikh, was himself unmasked. This is a book for everyone concerned about standards in British tabloid journalism and people who care about privacy rights and the debate over serving the Public Interest versus the interest of the public.
Given the scale of her commercial success and reputation as a literary writer, Wharton's ambivalence toward modern media and promotional techniques that played a significant part in her sales is ...notable, especially in the case of the heavily advertised The Custom of the Country, a "magnum opus" (Letters 240) she felt was artistically better than the very successful House of Mirth.2 While she griped that Americans are "told every morning, by wireless and book jacket, by news item and picture-paper, who is in the day's spotlight, and must be admired (and if possible read) before the illumination shifts" ("Permanent Values in Fiction" 178), promotion featured in her popular literary triumphs. The logic of profit at the heart of tabloid culture relates to the attitudes of Undine Spragg, whose life story is inseparable from a mediatized self-image, beginning when her hometown paper the "Apex Eagle ... head-lined ... her 'The child-bride' " (109) on the occasion of her youthful first engagement. ...begins a lifelong interaction of media power and its mode and manner with Undine Spragg's mutable personae. From the papers she also learns self-representation, acquiring "the instinct of adapting herself to whatever company she was in, of copying 'the others' " (Custom 150). ...as it pertains to Undine, the idea of copying shifts registers to suggest a mass production of subjects. There is a gap between tabloid social reality and its referents, and the slippage reveals a contested real in which what symbolizes the elite misrepresents the signified by focusing on style instead of ideas. ...style and visibility equate with high status in Undine's mind.
Tabloidisation is the main consequence of the requirement by the Chinese state for broadcast media to become entirely reliant on the market for their financial operations and returns. Tabloidisation ...has certain general features wherever it becomes a dominant tendency in media development, whether in Western societies or elsewhere. Yet tabloidisation also develops distinctive features in different parts of the world. The central argument of this article is that tabloidisation with Chinese characteristics involves a political as well as a cultural dimension, which is different from any other national form of tabloidisation. It is just as much a result of political forces as of media marketisation. While every form of tabloidisation can be said to have political implications, tabloidisation in China is both directly and indirectly connected to the party-state. It can be said to serve the interests, policies and directives of the party-state, as well as the commercial interests of media organisations by helping them build audiences and attract sponsors. Based on extensive research with Chinese broadcasting personnel and a careful content analysis of Depth 105, this study both informs more general discussions on the development of Chinese broadcasting as it follows the global trend in its commercialisation process, and manifests tabloidisation in a distinctive Chinese cultural and political setting.
This article examines widely circulating discourses on tabloid newspapers, analyzing what they tell us about dominant models of citizenship and their problems. Drawing on data from a Mass Observation ...Archive survey of ordinary people's views of media and democracy, the article demonstrates
that there are only a limited number of ways to talk about popular journalism. What I here call tabloid talk is informed by a liberal democratic model of citizenship and denounces the sensationalist content of the popular press that is seen to undermine serious and rational public debate.
Tabloid talk is used by respondents as a strategy to distance themselves from the newspapers, showing them off as good citizens. It also empowers them to critique the content of the newspapers. However, tabloid talk fails to explain audiences engagement with the popular press and therefore
does not account for effective responses to media content.
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