The Jeremiad Over Journalism

90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
77
30
Table 7 – The number of newspaper articles sampled between 1968 and 2008 divided by news outlet.
The newspaper N reported in Table 7 is also the N that the following graphs are based on. To take
two examples, this means that the percentages of The New York Times articles reported for 1968 are
based on 77 articles while the percentages for Politiken in 2001 are based on 42 articles as will be
apparent in the analysis that follows.
5.3 H1: Commercializaton
55
49
27
25
2
49
44
32
23 20
1
51
47
42
22
20
1
42 45
38
29
22
3
5
9
2
0
H1: From 1968 and forward a ―commercial deluge‖ has enveloped Danish print media
leading to changes in newspaper content with greater focus on ―form‖ instead of
―substance.‖
H1a: From 1968 and forward news stories increasingly utilize soft news leads
H1b: From 1968 and forward news stories increasingly utilize an interpretative style of
reporting
Article sample size (N)
1968 1971 1980 1981 1988 1990 2000 2001 2008
H1c: From 1968 and forward news stories focus more on personalities and strategy than
political issues, especially in media companies which are publicly traded.
174
New York Times
Los Angeles Times
USA Today
Politiken
Berlingske Tidende
Ekstra Bladet