soft news

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Examples of hard news

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This implies that appeals by political leaders are unlikely to change the minds of most hardnews enthusiasts.
In reporting speeches, as in reporting the ' hardnews ', a commitment to nonpartisan ' newsgathering ' could limit the effectiveness of a particular policy advocacy.
Soft news ignores primaries and off-year elections and covers more crime and education and war than was the norm on hardnews shows.
Hardnews loses out because of the dumbing down of reader and viewer interests.
Some readers might also argue that network news magazines e belong in the hardnews category.
Finally, while soft news coverage of politics includes substantially less policy content than hard news reporting, such programs nevertheless do impart substantive information to viewers.
In this way, the existence of public broadcasters makes commercial channels softer because the public broadcasters may already have hardnews locations occupied.
People who normally see no personal gain in spending time on hardnews will accept soft news purely for its entertainment value.
If broadcasters internalized the benefits of hardnews to society, they would be more likely to offer hardnews fare.
With each of the outlets owned separately, no channel has an incentive to provide hardnews programming.
Some people are learning more from soft news than they ever did from hardnews.
Programs in markets with higher viewer interest in hardnews carried a higher number of national hardnews stories and local political stories.
Seeing the degree that producer information involving public policy makes its way into a general news outlet is one way to define the degree an outlet focuses on hardnews.
They often cover a different set of issues from hardnews programs, and when they do cover the same issues, they do so in other ways.
In other cases, the direction of the market failure may be clearer, such as the underprovision of hardnews because of rational ignorance among viewers/voters.
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