Dominance & Attention: Images of Leaders in German, French, & American TV News

Dominance & Attention: Images of Leaders in German, French, & American TV News

Television has become the central medium of communication in modern politics. The way in which leaders are presented to the public on TV shapes and measures their status, and their power can no longer be fully understood without reference to television coverage. This article, based on a cross-nation...

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Veröffentlicht in:Polity 1991-04, Vol.23 (3), p.373-394
Hauptverfasser: Masters, Roger D., Frey, Siegfried, Bente, Gary
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
FRANCE
Germany
GERMANY IN GENERAL
LEADERSHIP
MASS MEDIA (NEWSPAPERS, MAGAZINES, TV, RADIO, ETC.)
News content
Political power
POLITICAL THEORY
Politicians
Primates
Public television
TELEVISION
Television programs
Television studies
Television viewers
Television viewing
United States
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Zusammenfassung:Television has become the central medium of communication in modern politics. The way in which leaders are presented to the public on TV shapes and measures their status, and their power can no longer be fully understood without reference to television coverage. This article, based on a cross-national study of nightly newscasts in Germany, France, and the United States, finds that the frequency with which the images of leaders appear on TV reflects the different patterns of political dominance in the three nations. The authors link this to different social and political systems and analyze the implications for leadership.
ISSN:0032-3497
1744-1684
DOI:10.2307/3235132