The Jeremiad Over Journalism

Based on the results below, it will be argued that when looking at descriptive journalistic style, the
move from away from one-source articles and the use of hard news leads in election articles, it is
possible to speak of a shift towards the ―objectivity ideal‖ in Danish journalism and by extension an
adaptation of American ideals of journalistic style and production. This shift is especially apparent
in the Danish appropriation of ―balanced‖ political reporting which seems to have occurred
between 1981 and 1990 while the percentage of hard news leads for Berlingske Tidende and
Politiken simultaneously stays high.
As is apparent from Tables 34 to 38 all three American newspapers have a slightly declining
propensity in terms of descriptive coverage and especially between 1968 and 2000 is this tendency
pronounced with the Los Angeles Times (p