Competitive pressure and arousing television news : a cross-cultural study

• Main Authors: Lin, Trisha T. C., Vettehen, Paul Hendriks, Zhou, Shuhua, Kleemans, Mariska, D'Haenens, Leen
• Other Authors: Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/96000; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/10766
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

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 d...