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Publication details [#26942]

Graber, Doris A. 1994. The infotainment quotient in routine television news: A director's perspective. Discourse & Society 5 (4) : 483–508.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

frame | information structure | news reporting | political system | television

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper demonstrates that both hypothetical and actual routine television news frames supply citizens with information on the who, what, where and when of the events, but (often) skip why and how questions and mask policy-relevant aspects.