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At the outset, we asked if there is any good news about the news and, if so, where
the good news is. In academic research and public discussions about news and
democracy, one finds different interpretations of the state of current news provision.
A tendency towards pessimism about current news performance is commonplace.
Although there is an overall proliferation of both traditional and newer
forms of online news availability and supply (Esser, de Vreese et al. 2012), many
suggest that the performance of news providers is getting worse. In more or less
explicit terms, the decreasing quality of news is seen as having a negative impact
on the quality of political life and democracy. Set against the pessimism and caution
in the public debate and literature on news quality and the performance of
political journalism, we were not optimistic that we would find good-quality news
or that we would be able to offer some good news as a positive antidote, so to
speak, to the pervasive pessimism in the literature.
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Political journalism Political news coverage
Pedagogical Context
Citation
De Vreese, C., Reinemann, C., Esser, F., Hopmann, N., Aaberg, T., Van Aelst,... Strömbäck, J., (2017). Conclusion: assessing news performance. In C. de Vreese, F. Esser & D. Hopmann (Eds.), Comparing Political Journalism, pp. 168-182. London & New York: Routledge