Competitive pressure and arousing television news: a cross-cultural study |
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| Authors: | Paul Hendriks Vettehen Shuhua Zhou Mariska Kleemans Leen D'Haenens Trisha TC Lin |
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| Institution: | 1. Communication Science , Radboud University , Nijmegen , The Netherlands P.HendriksVettehen@maw.ru.nl;3. College of Communication &4. Information Science , University of Alabama , Tuscaloosa , AL , USA;5. Communication Science , Radboud University , Nijmegen , The Netherlands;6. Centre for Media Culture and Communication Technology , Catholic University of Leuven , Leuven , Belgium;7. Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore |
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| Abstract: | In many scholarly writings about journalism, the idea can be found that competitive pressure urges journalists to make news more arousing. This hypothesis was tested in two cultural settings: the Western European culture and the Chinese-dominated culture. A total of 3028 TV news stories from seven different markets, or 12 different news programs, were analyzed on the presence of arousing news characteristics. High competitive pressure at the market level appeared to contribute to the prevalence of arousing news, but this effect was more pronounced in the Chinese-dominated culture than in the Western European culture. Effects of high competitive pressure at the station level were only observed in the Western European culture. |
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| Keywords: | competitive pressure arousal in news content analysis cross-cultural research |
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