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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRESS-POLITICS
Volume 22, Issue 2, Pages 143-162Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1940161217690881
Keywords
current affairs TV; qualitative audience research; journalism; political information
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- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) [314-99-103]
- ten Dutch journalism organizations
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This paper explores how political information can be told in such a way that news users experience it as captivating. More specifically, it seeks to move beyond Irene Costera Meijer's double viewing paradox and bridge the gap between what attracts and satisfies viewers by developing bottom-up, user-defined, quality criteria for current affairs TV. Items from two Dutch current affairs shows were watched and discussed with fifty-four viewers. A key finding is that participants greatly appreciated feeling enabled to better understand how politics work and impact society. This suggests that what viewers want from political journalism might differ from what journalists produce yet is perfectly compatible with their democratic remit.
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