Abstract
This paper adopts a case study approach to the investigation of the genre of the accountability interview. It zooms in on one particular political interview that was broadcast on Spanish television...
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Social media are rapidly gaining importance in the changing news ecology of the twentyfirst century (Lewis & Cushion, 2017), television remains a powerful channel for politicians when it comes to reaching a mass audience
2013), but it raises a number of questions: what exactly are the institutions the participants in the event are said to represent? Is this always clear and unequivocal? Does an interview that is presented as an accountability interview and that seems at first glance to be discursively constructed as such necessarily result in the politician being held accountable? If not, why not? These are the research questions this paper addresses
In their study on abstraction in political communication, Menegatti and Rubini argue that “politicians vary the abstraction of their messages as a function of the similarity between their ideological orientation and the political orientation of the audience” (2013, p. 596)
Summary
Social media are rapidly gaining importance in the changing news ecology of the twentyfirst century (Lewis & Cushion, 2017), television remains a powerful channel for politicians when it comes to reaching a mass audience. Montgomery (2008) distinguishes four different sub-types of the genre Among these is the accountability interview that calls “a public figure to account in relation to an issue or event of the moment either for their own deeds or words or for the actions/statements of the institution with which they are associated” In 2010 this practice induced the socialist party to propose a new, more liberal law which gave women the right to choose for an abortion until up to 14 weeks into their pregnancy, or up to 22 weeks if their health was at risk or the foetus showed serious deformities
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