Media studies, Vol. 1 No. 1-2, 2010.
Conference paper
Information Sources on Primetime News Programs of Entity Public Service Television Stations in B&H and Commercial NTV Hayat
Zarfa Hrnjić
orcid.org/0000-0001-6904-2207
; University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Abstract
Sources of information used by mass media for presenting events are among the key criteria in evaluating news credibility, whether the credibility is perceived from recipients’ or professionals’ perspectives.
The aim of this research is to determine the credibility of TV news in terms of professional imperatives of objectivity, whereas the majority of research on this issue centers on media credibility evaluated from the perspective of the intended audiences. Considering the fact that audience perception is strongly influenced by its (dis)affinity for a specific media, particularly in B&H, we consider the analysis from the professional standards to be more objective. The goal of the quantitative and qualitative analysis of the contests emitted on primetime news programs of two public and one commercial TV stations in B&H is to determine how credible and reliable the news was as well as its overall objectivity and fairness. The results reveal that the differences were not most evident between the public and commercial TV stations, but rather between the entity televisions despite the fact that they belong to the same RTV system. Coverage of the same events on the three TV stations indicates that the reports were based primarily on one-sided and biased sources.
Keywords
CREDIBILITY; CONFIDENCE; TELEVISION; NEWS
Hrčak ID:
76705
URI
Publication date:
20.12.2010.
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