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The Jeremiad Over Journalism

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90<br />

85<br />

80<br />

75<br />

70<br />

65<br />

Descriptive news USA Today<br />

1988 2000 2008<br />

Table 38 – Percentage of descriptive news stories in USA Today between 1988 and 2008.<br />

Keeping in line with Ekstra Bladet‘s profile as being out of the mainstream, the newspapers article<br />

leads are also more innovative and provocative throughout the years studied than the more<br />

mainstream Berlingske Tidende and Politiken. <strong>The</strong>se findings also correspond well with recent<br />

Danish scholarship, which points out that Ekstra Bladet is considered the least objective and most<br />

sensational news outlet among Danish readers. <strong>The</strong> development of descriptive news reporting for<br />

Ekstra Bladet between 1971 and 2001 is not statistically significant. 566<br />

566 Erik Albæk, David Nicolas Hopmann, and Claes Holger de Vreese, Kunsten at Holde Balancen [<strong>The</strong> Art of Keeping<br />

the Balance] (Odense: Syddansk Universitetsforlag, 2010). Page 100.<br />

204<br />

N (1988) = 20<br />

N (2000) = 22<br />

N (2008) = 22<br />

USA Today<br />

Linear tendency (USA<br />

Today)

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