Original scientific paper
Factualisation in Radio News. A Case Study of the News Programme on Commercial Radio Station Radio 1
Peter Čaks
; Assistant at Chair of Journalism, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Kardeljeva pl. 5, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
In the overflow of media information, audiences rarely wonder about its quality. The duty of researchers is to ask that question – what kind of information does media really offer? Do they mediate information that enables audience to get a whole, meaningful, and understandable view of a covered event or situation? The goal of this study was to reveal genre characteristics of news in the case of the most popular and listened to Slovene commercial radio station (Radio 1). Textual genre analysis of news broadcasts by Radio 1 and indepth interviews with editors confirmed the hypothesis that factualisation in the news genre prevailed, i.e. a too extensive presentation of only certain facts and, on the other hand, as negligence of contextual facts that would enable listeners to create a whole, clear, and understandable picture of an event. The case study also showed that factualisation originates mainly because there is not enough time, and because of the editor’s lack of consciousness about the importance of contextual information to the listeners.
Keywords
factualisation; radio; news; radio news; discursive genre analysis
Hrčak ID:
37287
URI
Publication date:
4.5.2009.
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