Packaging television news: The effects of tabloid on information processing and evaluative responses

Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 581-598

  Grabe, Maria Elizabeth ^a   Zhou, Shuhua ^a   Lang, Annie ^a   Bolls, Paul David ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0041936643     PISSN: 08838151     EISSN: 15506878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15506878jobem4404_4     Document Type: Article

References (80)

1. Adams, W. C. (1978). Local public affairs content of TV news. Journalism Quarterly, 55(4), 690-695.
2. Austin, W. E., & Dong, Q. (1994). Source v. content effects on judgments of news believability. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 77(4), 973-983.
3. Bernstein, C. (1992, June). The idiot culture: Reflections of post-Watergate journalism. The New Republic, (p. 22).
4. Bird, S. E. (1990). Storytelling on the far side: Journalism and the weekly tabloid. Critical Studies in Mass Communication, 7(4), 377-389.
5. Bird, S. E. (1992). For inquiring minds: A cultural study of supermarket tabloids. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press.
6. Bird, S. E., & Dardenne, R. W. (1988). Myth, chronicle, and story: Exploring the narrative qualities of news. In J. W. Carey (Ed.), Media, myths, and narratives (pp. 67-87). Beverly Hills, CA: Sage.
7. Bolinger, D. (1982). The network tone of voice. Journal of Broadcasting, 26(3), 725-728.
8. Bradley, M. M. (1994). Emotional memory: A dimensional analysis. In S. H. M. V. Goozen, N. E. Van de Poll, & J. A. Sergeant (Eds.), Emotions: Essays on emotion theory (pp. 97-134). Hillsdale, New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
9. Bradley, M. M., Creenwald, M. K., Petry, M. C., & Lang, P. J. (1992). Remembering pictures: Pleasure and arousal in memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology, 76(2), 379-390.
10. Briller, B. (1993). The Tao of tabloid television. Television Quarterly, 26(4), 51-61.
11. Brosius, H. B. (1996). How do text-picture relations affect the informational effectiveness of television newscasts. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 40(2), 180-195.
12. Burgoon, J. K. (1978). Attributes of the newscaster's voice as predictors of his credibility. Journalism Quarterly, 55(2), 276-281.
13. Campbell, R. (1991). Securing the middle ground: Reporter formulas in 60 Minutes. In R. Avery & D. Eason (Eds.), Critical perspectives in media and society (pp. 265-293). New York: Cuilford Press.
14. Carey, J. W. (1975). A cultural approach to communication. Communication, 2(1 ), 1 -22.
15. Cremedas, M. E., & Chew, F. (1994). The influence of tabloid style TV news on viewers recall, interest and perception of importance. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Atlanta, CA.
16. Davie, W. R., & Lee, J. S. (1995). Sex, violence, and consonance/differentiation: An analysis of local W news values. Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly, 72(1 ), 128-138.
17. Darnton, R. (1975). Writing news and telling stories. Daedalus, 104(2), 175-194.
18. Donahew, L. (1983). Newsvvriting styles: What arouses the reader? Newspaper Research Journal, 3(2), 3-6.
19. Drew, D., & Grimes, T. (1987). Audio-visual redundancy and TV news recall. Communication Research, 14(4), 452-461.
20. Ekman, P. (1983). Emotion and the human face. New York: Cambridge University Press.
21. Emery, E., & Emery, M. (1978). The press and America. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
22. Epstein, E. J. (1974). News From nowhere. New York: Vintage Books.
23. Dominick, J. R., Wurtzel, A., & Lometti, G. (1975). Television journalism vs. show business: A content analysis of eyewitness news. Journalism Quarterly, 52(2), 213-218.
24. Ericson, R. V. (1991 ). Mass media, crime, law and justice. The British Journal of Criminology, 3 7(3), 219-249.
25. Findahl, O., & Hoijer, B. (1985). Some characteristics of news memory and comprehension. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 29, 379-396.
26. Fiske, J. (1992). Popularity and the politics of information. In P. Dahlgren & C. Sparks (Eds.), journalism and popular culture (pp. 45-63). London: Sage.
27. Galan, L. S. (1986). The use of subjective point of view in persuasive communication. M.A. Thesis, University of Pennsylvania.
28. Geiger, S., & Newhagen, J. (1993). Revealing the black box: Information processing and media effects, journal of Communication, 43(4), 42-50.
29. Grabe, M. E., Zhou, S. & Barnett, B. (1998). Explicating sensationalism: Content and the bells and whistles of form. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Baltimore, MD.
30. Graber, D. A. (1984). Processing the news: How people tame the information tide. New York: Longman.
31. Graber, D. A. (1990). Seeing is remembering: How visuals contribute to learning from television news. Journal of Communication, 40(3), 134-155.
32. Graber, D. A. (1994). The infotainment quotient in routine television news: A director's perspective. Discourse in Society, 5(4), 483-808.
33. Graham, F. K. (1979). Distinguishing among orienting, defense, and startle reflexes. In H. D. Kimmel, E. H. van Olst, and J. F. Orlebeke (Eds.), The orienting reflexes in humans (pp. 137-167). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum Associates.
34. Gunter, B. (1987). Poor reception: Misunderstanding and forgetting broadcast news. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
35. Hallin, D. C., & Mancini, P. (1984). Speaking of the president: Political structure and representational form in the U.S. and Italian television news. Theory and Society, 13, 829-850.
36. Harmon, M. (1989). Mr. Gates goes electronic: The what and why questions in local TV news. Journalism Quarterly, 66(4), 857-863.
37. Henry, W. A. (Ed.) (1981). News as entertainment: The search for dramatic unity. San Francisco: Institute for Contemporary Studies.
38. Hitchon, )., Thorson, E., & Duckler, P. (1994). Effects of ambiguity and complexity on consumer response to music video commercials. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 38(3), 289-306.
39. Hofstetter, C. R., & Dozier, D. M. (1986). Useful news, sensational news: Quality, sensationalism and local TV news. Journalism Quarterly, 63(4), 815-820, 853.
40. Hopkins, R., & Fletcher, J. E. (1994). Electrodermal measurement: Particularly effective for forecasting message influence on sales appeal. In A. Lang (Ed.), Measuring psychological responses to media messages (pp. 113-132). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
41. Hughes, H. M. (1940). News and the human interest story. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
42. Katz, E., Adoni, H., & Parness, P. (1987). Remembering the news: What the picture add to recall. Journalism Quarterly, 54,231 -239.
43. Knight, G. (1989). Reality effects: Tabloid television news. Queen's Quarterly, 96(1 ), 94-108.
44. Knight, G., & Dean, T. (1982). Myth and the structure of news. Journal of Communication, 32(2), 144-161.
45. Kurtz, H. (1993, July 4). Murder! Mayhem! Ratings! Tabloid sensationalism is thriving on TV news. The Washington Post, (p. AI ).
46. Lacey, J. I., Kagan, J., Lacey B. C, & Moss, H. A. (1963). The visceral level: Situational determinants and behavioral correlates of autonomie response patterns. In P. H. Knapp (Ed.), Expression of the emotions in man (pp. 161-196. New York: International University Press.
47. Lang, A., & Friestad, M. (1993). Emotion, hemispheric specialization, and visual and verbal memory for television messages. Communication Research, 20(5), pp. 647-670.
48. Lang, A., Bolls, P., Potter, R., & Kawahara, K. (1999). The effects of production pacing and arousing content on the information processing of television messages. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 43,451-475.
49. Lang, A., Dhillon, K., & Dong, Q.-<1995). The effects of emotional arousal and valence on television viewers' cognitive capacity and memory. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 39(3), 313-327.
50. Lang, A., Newhagen, J., & Reeves, B. (1996). Negative video as structure: Emotion, attention, capacity, and memory. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 40(4), 460-477.
51. Lang, P. J., Creenwald, M., Bradley, M. M., & Hamm, A. O. (1993). Looking at pictures: Evaluative, facial, visceral, and behavioral responses. Psychophysiology, JO, 261 -273.
52. Lombard, M., Reich, R. D., Grabe, M. E., Campanella, C. M., & Ditton, T. B. (2000). Presence and television: The role of screen size. Human Communication Research, 23(\ ), 73-96.
53. Mott, F. L. (1962). American journalism. New York: MacMillan.
54. Neuman, R., W. (1976). Patterns of recall among television news viewers. Public Opinion Quarterly, 40,115-123.
55. Newhagen, J. E. & Nass, C. (1989). Differential criteria for evaluating credibility of newspapers and TV news. Journalism Quarterly, 66(2), 277-284.
56. Newhagen, J. E. & Reeves, B. (1992). The evening's bad news: Effects of compelling negative television news images on memory. Journal of Communication, 42(2), 25-40.
57. Newhagen, J. E. (1993). SLIMY: A demonstration of the psychological instrumentation for memory and yes/no responses. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Washington, D.C.
58. Newhagen, J. E., & Reeves, B. (1991 ). Responses for negative political advertising: A study of the 1988 presidential election. In F. Biocca (Ed.), Television and Political Advertising, Volume 1 (pp. 197-220). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates
59. Park, R. (1940). News as a form of knowledge. In R. H. Turner (Ed.), On social control and collective behavior (pp. 32-52). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
60. Rayfield, J. R. (1972). What is a story? American Anthropologist, 74(5), 1085-1106.
61. Reeves, B., Thorson, E., & Schleuder, J. (1986). Attention to television: Psychological theories and Chronometrie measures. In J. Bryant & D. Zillmann (Eds.), Perspectives on media effects (pp. 251-279). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
62. Reibstein, L. (1994, April 11). Cheap thrills; where less is more. Newsweek, (pp. 62-64).
63. Rosenberg, H. (1989, September 27). Hard Copy- by any other name it's still tabloid. Los Angeles Times, (p. 1,5, Part VI).
64. Ryu, J. S. (1982). Public affairs and sensationalism in local TV news programs. Journalism Quarterly, 59(1 ), 74-78,137.
65. Salerno, S. (August 21,1995). Trash by any other name. The Wall Streetjournal, (p. A7).
66. Salomon, G. (1972). Can we effect cognitive skills through visual media? Audiovisual Communications Review, 20(4), 401-422.
67. Scott, D. K., & Gobetz, R. H. (1992). Hard news/soft news content of the national broadcast networks, 1972-1987. Journalism Quarterly, 69(2), 406-412.
68. Seidman, S. A. (1981). On the contributions of music to media production. Educational Communication Technology Journal, 29(1), 49-61.
69. Slattery, K. L. (1994). Sensationalism versus news of the moral life: Making the distinction. Journal of Mass Media Ethics, 9(1 ), 5-15.
70. Son, J., Reese, S., & Davie, W. (1987). Effects of visual-verbal redundancy and recaps on TV news learning. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, 31(2).
71. Tannenbaum, P. H., & Lynch, M. D. (1960). Sensationalism: The concept and its measurement. Journalism Quarterly, 37(2), 381-392.
72. Thorson, E., & Lang, A. (1992). The effects of television videographics and lecture familiarity on adult cardiac orienting responses and memory. Communication Research, 19(3), 346-369.
73. Tuchman, G. (1976). Telling stories. Journal of Communication, 26(4), 93-97.
74. Walters, H. (1988, November 14). Trash TV: The industry's shack artist are all over the dial. Newsweek, (pp. 72-76).
75. Weiss, P. (1989, May-June). Bad rap for TV tabs. Columbia journalism Review, (pp. 38-42).
76. White, H. (1981). The value of narrativity in the representation of reality. In W. J. T. Mitchell (Ed.), On narrative (pp. 1-23). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
77. Wulfemeyer, K. T. (1982). A content analysis of local television newscasts: Answering the critics. Journal of Broadcasting, 26(1 ), 481-486.
78. Yoon, K., Bolls, P., Lang, A., & Potter, R. (1997). The effects of advertising pacing and arousal on ad and brand attitudes and behavioral intention. In M. C. Backlin, (Ed.A The Proceedings of the Conference of the American Academy of Advertising, 169-171.
79. Zillmann, D. (1982). Television and arousal. In D. Pearl, L. Bouthilet, & J. Lazar (Eds.), Television and behavior: Ten years of scientific progress and implications for the eighties (pp. 53-67). Washington DC: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
80. Zoglin, R. (1993, December 6). Easing the sleaze. Time, (pp. 74).