Perceptions of sensationalism among U.S. and Mexican news audiences.(Statistical Data Included)

Newspaper Research Journal | January 1, 2002| | Copyright

News researchers have used two somewhat different concepts of news sensationalism. Some work treats sensationalism as a researcher-defined property of communication contents, such as bloody graphics or crime news. Content analysis can measure such contents quite readily. (1) The other concept emphasizes audience reactions or perceived sensationalism, of which Danielson et al. provided one influential conceptualization:

   Sensationalism means that stories in a publication are underdistanced: ... 
   they supply more sensations and emotional reactions than we desire 
   ...

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