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How States, Markets and Globalization Shape the NewsThe French and US National Press, 1965-97Department of Culture and Communication, New York University, 239 Greene Street, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10003-6674, USA, rdb6{at}nyu.edu
Department of Communication, University of California-San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0503, USA, dhallin{at}ucsd.edu This article presents a comparative content analysis of the US and French national press in the 1960s and 1990s to test hypotheses about the influence of media structure on journalistic discourse. The US and French press are presented as strongly contrasting models, with the US press more commercialized, and the French press more closely tied to the political field. Using a variety of story- and paragraph-level content indicators, this studyshows that the French press (Le Monde and Le Figaro) offers relatively more critical coverage, a greater representation of civil society viewpoints, a stronger emphasis on both the ideological and strategic ‘game’ aspects of politics, and a higher proportion of interpretation and opinion mixed with factual reporting. Representing the US national press, The New York Times is shown to ‘index’ its coverage more closely to political elite viewpoints. Despite globalizing pressures, French-US differences have not diminished over time.
Key Words: content analysis • France • international comparative research • sociology of news • United States
European Journal of Communication, Vol. 22, No. 1,
27-48 (2007) This article has been cited by other articles:
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