The Jeremiad Over Journalism

25
20
15
10
5
0
Table 23 – Percentage of soft news coverage in Politiken between 1971 and 2001.
Politiken‘s soft news coverage never rises above 22 percent in the four election campaigns studied,
and hovers between 10 and 13 percent between 1971 and 1990. Only in 2001 does there seem to be
a shift to more soft news on the front page of Politiken though this change is not statistically
significant. For the Los Angeles Times there is a decline in soft news coverage between 1968 and
1988 and a slight rise until 2008. These results are not statistically significant however.
100
90
80
70
60
50
40
30
20
10
0
Soft News Politiken
1971 1981 1990 2001
Soft News Los Angeles Times
1968 1980 1988 2000 2008
Table 24 – Percentage of soft news in the Los Angeles Times 1968 to 2008.
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N (1971) = 25
N (1981) = 23
N (1990) = 20
N (2001) = 42
Politiken
N (1968) = 30
N (1980) = 49
N (1988) = 49
N (2000) = 47
N (2008) = 38
Linear Tendency
(Politiken)
Los Angeles Times
Linear tendency (Los
Angeles Times)