%0 Journal Article
%T Construction of the image of politics in Spanish TV news programmes. The endo- and exo- balances of the quality of political information
%A F Guerrero-Sol¨¦
%A C Pont-Sorribes
%A M Palencia-Lefler
%J Revista Latina de Comunicaci¨®n Social
%D 2013
%I Universidad de La Laguna (Tenerife, Canarias)
%X In our society the image that citizens have of politics is strongly conditioned by the way politics are represented in the media and, in particular, in TV news programmes. This article, a product of an R&D project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Social Policy and Sport, analyses the presence and image of political news in eight Spanish TV channels. This article also proposes a new method to measure the quality of political information in Spanish TV news programmes through the definition of the endo- and exo- balances of the political content of news programmes. The main conclusions of this study are that the news programmes of Televisi¨®n Espa ola and Cuatro offer a more balanced image of politics, while the news programmes from Sexta and Canal 9 offer more unbalanced image. The percentage of news devoted to politics does not depend on the channels¡¯ ownership (public or private) or broadcast coverage (national or regional). On the other hand, there is a relation between the percentages of political issues and policy issues news presented on television.
%K agenda setting
%K news quality
%K news programmes
%K television
%K politics
%K image of politics.
%U http://www.revistalatinacs.org/068/paper/973_Pompeu/07_Palenciaen.html