I’m currently waiting on the data from Journalist ‘05, a regular (every five years) survey of Swedish journalists, which are as I write being turned into book form by Prof. Kent Asp and colleagues. In the meantime, here are some results from the 2000 survey:
Public
Journalists
SVT Journalists
Left
15
31
33
Social Democrats
32
27
23
Centre
4
3
2
People’s Party
5
14
17
Moderates
25
10
6
Greens
6
10
14
Christian Democrats
13
5
5
Journalists in general are more left-libertarian […]
One can tell something about Italian journalism by the way in which Italian newspapers and television news bulletins treat editorials from the Financial Times and the Economist, two papers with deserved reputations for straight-talking. Yet when these editorials reach Italy, they quickly become sensationalized. And so, when the Financial Times published on its website a […]
Nordicom Review 1-2/2004 - Publication: “Mass Media, Interpersonal Communication or Personal Experience? Perceptions of Media Effects among Swedish Politicians” - is an interesting article demonstrating that politicians are far more likely than the general population to be believe that the mass media is extremely influential slash decisive in forming people’s political views - something I’ve […]
