Dutch Newspapers Research Articles

Real-World Indicators and the Coverage of Immigration and the Integration of Minorities in Dutch Newspapers

A B S T R A C T ■ An intriguing question in communication science deals with factors determining the intensity of news reporting about certain issues. The study investigates whether the prominence of immigration and the integration of minorities in news coverage reflects real-world developments or whether it is dependent on (political) key events. The authors compare the direct effects of real-world developments and key events in Dutch newspapers for the period 1991—2002 on the prominence of issue coverage. Results indicate that events have a more direct impact on the attention given to immigration and the integration of minorities in the news. The authors furthermore find that international events have a direct, but temporary effect, while most institutional national events influence media attention permanently. ■

Global Angling with a Local Angle: How U.S., British, and Dutch Newspapers Frame Global and Local Terrorist Attacks

The 9/11 terrorist attacks and later attacks such as those in London and Madrid shocked the world and found their way into the newspapers of many countries. The authors study the international coverage of these events in the context of globalization versus localization and the creation of the dominant post-cold war frame of the War on Terror. Using automatic co-occurrence analysis based on the notion of associative framing, they investigate whether these events were mainly framed in a local or global way in the American, British, and Dutch press. The authors found that although proximity is still a strong determinant of attention for events, the framing of these events was more affected by the global event of 9/11 than by local considerations.

The impact of film reviews on the box office performance of art house versus mainstream motion pictures

Critics and their reviews can play an important role in consumer decision making in general, and film choice in particular. In this study, we propose that consumers of art house movies are being led by film reviews when making a film choice (influence effect), whereas consumers of mainstream movies are hypothesized to rely mainly on other sources of information. Thus, in the latter case the review does not influence the moviegoer, but may still be a reflection of the ultimate success of the movie (predictor effect). Using the Dutch film industry as our empirical setting, we study the effects of reviews on the opening weekend and on the cumulative box office revenue. Our research shows that the number and size of film reviews in Dutch newspapers directly influence the behavior of the art-movie-going public in their film choice. The number and size of film reviews of mainstream movies, on the other hand, only predict movie performance.

Toward Automatic Determinationof the Semantics of Connectivesin Large Newspaper Corpora

We explored the possibility of using automatic techniques to analyze the use of backward causal connectives in large Dutch newspaper corpora. With the help of 2 techniques, Latent Semantic Analysis and Thematic Text Analysis, the contexts of more than 14,000 connectives were studied. The method of analysis is described. We found that differences that have been suggested in the literature via hand-based analyses between these types of connectives (e.g., on dimensions such as subjectivity, change in perspective, and factuality of the connected segments) also appear in our corpus of 16.5 million words.

Enclaves van leed en werkelijkheid; wiens trauma is 'Srebrenica' eigenlijk?

R. van den Boogaard, Zilverstad. De Haagse verduistering van het drama-SrebrenicaC. Banning, P. de Koning, Balkan aan de Noordzee. Over het Joegoslavië-tribunaal, over recht en onrechtH. Praamsma, J. Peekel, T. Boumans, Herinneringen aan Srebrenica. 171 SoldatengesprekkenE. Suljagic, E. Vulliamy, L. Haveric, Postcards from the grave, afterword by Vulliamy, E., translated by L. HavericL.P.C. Ruigrok, Journalism of attachment. Dutch newspapers during the Bosnian warA. van Loon, Vrouwen van SrebrenicaJ. VanIerberghe, Kroniek van onmacht. Sarajevo, Srebrenica... tien jaar later Bob de Graaff, Enclaves of truth and anguish; whose trauma is ‘Srebrenica’ anyway? In 2005,ten years after the fall of the so-called ‘safearea’ of Srebrenica where a Dutch UN-battalion had been deployed to deter a Serb attack on the Bosnian Muslim enclave, several books were published on the war in Bosnia-Herzogovina (1992-1995). These publications examined the war’s aftermath and the way in which people came to terms with it. The author shows how the different groups involved in the tragedy at the time Bosnian Muslims and Dutch politicians, journalists and soldiers – all had their own separate ways of committing their pain to memory, there by giving the impression that each one of them had a monopoly on the truth and that their traumatic experience was unique.

Papers of John Adams. Volume 12: October 1781-April 1782 (review)

Papers of John Adams. Volume 12: October 1781-April 1782. Edited by Gregg L. Lint, Richard Alan Ryerson, Anne Decker Cecere, C.James Taylor, Jennifer Shea, Celeste Walker, Margaret A. Hogan. (Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. Pp. 533. Illustrations. Cloth, $85.00.)Reading John Adams's writing in this twelfth volume of the Papers of John Adams has been both pleasurable and instructive. Adams's abilities have long been recognized: his intelligence, his mental energy, his broad knowledge, his capacity for work. He had less attractive traits as well: vanity, hypersensitivity to slight, and, in his later years, an obsession with reputation. In the seven months between October 1781 and April 1782, which this volume covers, Adams and his correspondents produced enough writing to fill 500 pages of printed text. Throughout, Adams's unique qualities of personality and character that make him such a notable and interesting person are vividly displayed.The papers published in volume 12 continue the story of Adams's diplomatic assignment in the Netherlands begun in volumes 10 and 11. The items cover a variety of subjects and include most importantly Adams's correspondence with Congress arid secretary for Foreign Affairs Robert R. Livingstoii; with U.S. envoys John Jay, Benjamin Franklin, and Francis Dana; with various Dutch and French officials and notables; with Dutch bankers about an American loan; and Adams's letters critiquing a recently published history of the American Revolution.Adams was alone in the Netherlands, without wife or sons, commissioned by Congress to negotiate treaties of commerce and alliance with the Dutch States General. Although at war with Great Britain, the Netherlands had not recognized U.S. independence, and Adams was in the awkward position of serving as an informal envoy of the United States without official recognition. As such, he could talk informally with Dutch authorities but could not conduct official business. On his own initiative, without instructions, Adams insisted that formal recognition of U.S. independence must precede any treaty negotiation. To this end, Adams wrote and dispatched memorials, lobbied Dutch officials, courted the French ambassador at The Hague, cultivated Dutch and French politicians and newspaper editors, and wrote and circulated anonymous articles advocating recognition. Success finally came in the spring of 1782 when the States General officially recognized the independence of the United States and received Adams. This set the stage for subsequent Dutch loans that provided crucial financial aid to Congress during the Confederation era.Adams's quest for his country's recognition was the more complicated because of Holland's decentralized government. Power was exercised by an oligarchy of mercantile and financial elites and by the stadtholder, William V, Prince of Orange, George Ill's pro-British nephew. Power was diffused both at the top and throughout the provinces where local assemblies and municipal governments were key. Complicating matters further was the existence of rival factions of Patriots and Orangists predisposed for and against the United States. Adams thus had to deal with a bewildering array of authorities, bodies, officials, and groups, all of whom had to approve whether the United States should be recognized. …

30 april 1980 en de journalistiek: Kanttekeningen bij het journalistieke perspectief

Journalists & sociologists have frequently criticized each other for having too narrow a focus in their examination of social phenomena. To test the hypothesis that the journalists are better social scientists than are the sociologists themselves, an analysis was conducted of 12 Dutch newspaper articles & radio & TV reports on the Amsterdam riots of 30 Apr 1980. Additionally, interview data were collected from journalists (N = 38) concerning their coverage & analyses of the causes of the disturbances. It is shown that the journalists have a naive empirical concept of reality & are preoccupied with the institutionalization of their own profession; their description of social reality suffers from these limitations. Thus, sociologists are better social scientists than journalists, in contrast to the hypothesis. Modified HA.

THE GENESIS OF TOP MANAGEMENT TEAM DIVERSITY: SELECTIVE TURNOVER AMONG TOP MANAGEMENT TEAMS IN DUTCH NEWSPAPER PUBLISHING, 1970-94.

We propose that executive team power strengthens a cycle of homosocial reproduction that is interrupted only when teams face such compelling needs for diversity as poor organizational performance, high corporate diversification, and tough market competition. Hypothesis tests in data from major Dutch newspaper publishers over 25 years did not support many of our benchmark expectations. Apparently, top management teams tend to close ranks when environmental complexity and pressure increase. Explanations and new research avenues are discussed.

The Genesis of Top Management Team Diversity: Selective Turnover Among Top Management Teams in Dutch Newspaper Publishing, 1970–94

The Genesis of Top Management Team Diversity: Selective Turnover Among Top Management Teams in Dutch Newspaper Publishing, 1970–94

Robert Boyle, Georges Pierre des Clozets, and the Asterism: a New Source

AbstractIn 1677-8 Robert Boyle fell victim to a French confidence trickster, Georges Pierre des Clozets, who claimed to belong to a secret society of alchemists, 'the Asterism'; the leader of the Asterism was described as the 'Patriarch of Antioch', resident in Constantinople. New evidence shows that Georges Pierre had contrived to publish two short articles about this 'Patriarch' in a Dutch newspaper, and that one of these was given to Boyle to corroborate Pierre's claims. These articles provide further information about the nature of Pierre's invention. Most importantly, they show that his 'Patriarch of Antioch' was modelled on, and explicitly connected to, a contemporary alchemist in whom Boyle already had an interest: Francesco Giuseppe Borri.

The Impact of Newspapers on Consumer Confidence: Does Spin Bias Exist?

It is sometimes argued that news reports in the media suffer from biased reporting. Mullainathan and Shleifer (2002) argue that there are two types of media bias. One bias, called ideology, reflects a news outlet's desire to affect reader opinions in a particular direction. The second bias, referred to as spin, reflects the outlet's attempt to simply create a memorable story. Competition between outlets can eliminate the effect of ideological bias, but increases the incentive to spin stories. We examine whether we find some evidence of spin in Dutch newspaper reporting on the state of the economy. If newspapers are indeed able to create memorable stories this should, according to our hypothesis, affect the opinion of readers with respect to the state of the economy. Sentiments about the actual state of the economy could be magnified by spin. As a result, consumer confidence - a variable that routinely measures the opinion on the state of the economy - can be expected to be affected not only by economic fundamentals, but also by the way these fundamentals are reported. We construct a variable that reflects the way consumers perceive economic news reported in newspapers. We find that this variable indeed has a significant impact on consumer confidence, which is short-lived.

Covering Scientific Research in Dutch Newspapers

A content analysis of scientific news coverage in Dutch newspapers was conducted and supplemented with interviews with ten news editors and science journalists. In a total of ninety-six editions of the newspapers, we found 624 reports about scientific research. The content analysis focuses on the actual reporting of background and methodological aspects of the research covered. Contrary to expectations, quality papers and science sections in general did not supply more or better information on these aspects. The interviews revealed that reporting on scientific research means avoidance of complex information, even in the science section. Since most social-scientific research is reported in the news part of the paper, it generally lacks a critical approach to conceptual and statistical formulations.

Portrayal of Canada in the Dutch Print Media

This article is devoted to the nature of recent news coverage of Canada in the on-line versions of eight Dutch newspapers. The research literature points to five recurrent frames in news reporting: conflict, human interest, economic impact, morality, and responsibility. Our central research question concerned the nature of recent news reporting on Canada in Dutch newspapers in terms of amount of coverage and themes dealt with - and whether this news reflects the news frames. Two periods of study included eight weeks of routine reporting early in 2001 and two event-driven crisis months starting with September 11. In-depth interviews were also conducted with media makers and experts on Canada regarding their perception of the overall quality of the Dutch news reporting on Canada.

De fotografie van rampen. Objectiverende registratie of anticiperende betrokkenheid?

<strong>Photography of disasters. Objectifying registration or anticipated involvement?</strong> <strong></strong><br />The news photo has become an inextricable component of journalistic organizations. The first press photo in a Dutch newspaper was printed in 1890, but it would take another forty years for the photos to be printed togethet with their corresponding news articles. This article follows the development of press photography, specifically focussing on the documentation of large disasters such as the flood<br />disasters in 1916 and 1953, the large cinema and hotel fires in 1934 and 1977, and the fireworks disaster of Enschede in 2000. Up until the Second World War newspapers, as opposed to illustrated magazines, would only print a single photo, which was expected to provide a complete representation of the disaster. The photographer would attempt to capture a general overview of what had happened. Only later, and especially with the flood disaster in Zeeland, were the victims of the disaster photographed. The photographer finally dared to tread within the disaster zone and capture the victims in all their misery. The result of this approach were direct and emotional portraits. Changing techniques and improving communication methods allowed the photographer to document the disaster directly- as if he were involved himself. The changes triggered questions related to the recording of disasters, even more so than before: how confronting may a photograph be? Documentation of recent events, such as Enschede and Volendam, no longer suffice with single photos; newspapers instead present extensive photo reports, which preferably document the chronological sequence of events, focussing on the victims and aid. In the end it is the news editor who decides which photograph gets printed in his or her newspaper. And even though newspapers also use photographs from the larger<br />press offices, and not only from their own photographers, their personal signature is still recognisable in their choices.

International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) (Trial Chamber): Prosecutor v. Milošć (Decision Concerning an Amicus Curiae)

The accused has complained about publications in two newspapers. The first was published on the 7th of September, 2002 in the Haagsche Courant, a Dutch newspaper in The Hague, and the second on the 13th September, 2002 in the Kultura, a Bulgarian newspaper in Sofia, Bulgaria. Both publications resulted from interviews given by Mr. Michail Wladimiroff, one of the three amici curiae in this case.The publication in the Haagsche Courant was captioned: “Wladimiroff: Already Enough Evidence Against Milosevic.” Mr. Wladimiroff is reported as saying, “If this trial were only about Kosovo and one had to draw up the balance now, Milosevic would certainly be convicted. A link has been established between the army and the police, the warring parties in Kosovo and Milosevic himself.”Mr. Wladimiroff explained that he had been misquoted, and that what he had said was that “we have seen during the Prosecution case at least on the face of it, there is a link between the offences in Kosovo and the accused. That may not be for all events, but even if it were half of it, it is a relevant factor for the Trial Chamber when reaching a verdict.”

The Influence of Animacy on Relative Clause Processing

In previous research it has been shown that subject relative clauses are easier to process than object relative clauses. Several theories have been proposed that explain the difference on the basis of different theoretical perspectives. However, previous research tested relative clauses only with animate protagonists. In a corpus study of Dutch and German newspaper texts, we show that animacy is an important determinant of the distribution of subject and object relative clauses. In two experiments in Dutch, in which the animacy of the object of the relative clause is varied, no difference in reading time is obtained between subject and object relative clauses when the object is inanimate. The experiments show that animacy influences the processing difficulty of relative clauses. These results can only be accounted for by current major theories of relative clause processing when additional assumptions are introduced, and at the same time show that the possibility of semantically driven analysis can be considered as a serious alternative.

A content newspaper analysis of Dutch industry

In what way do Dutch newspapers report about large Dutch enterprises and to what extent are differences in media coverage caused by business‐related variables and/or media related variables? A content analysis of 2,354 articles from Dutch newspapers about 25 Dutch companies shows that companies differ in the way they are covered by newspapers. Both branch and number of employees have an effect on the volume of news. Publishing and transport companies show a higher volume than other branches. Also De Telegraaf, de Volkskrant and NRC Handelsblad show higher volumes than Algemeen Dagblad and Trouw. Stock value, change in share price and change in profit do not seem to have any effect on volume of news, although change in profit does have an effect on number of articles. A judgement score is also calculated for each article. Newspapers do not differ from each other in the way they cover companies. Only branch and change in profit show an effect on judgement score.

Een prul een prul noemen. Filmkritiek in twee Nederlandse dagbladen 1910-1922

To call a bad picture by its name. Film criticism in two Dutch newspapers 1910-1922The period before L.J. Jordaan started writing his famous column in 1923, the Netherlands were considered to be void of'serious' film criticism. This was partly because of the strong influence of the Nederlandsche Filmliga (the Dutch Film league), which prescribed its own artistic criteria in deciding what movies took precedence over others. However, close-examination of two Dutch national newspapers (Het Algemeen Handelsblad and De Telegraaf) in the decade prior to Jordaan's column shows that between 1910-1922 a genuine tradition of film reviewing had started to develop in the Netherlands. Especially after 1918 a specialized form of film journalism came about. Both newspapers state that the critics published on a regular basis in Het Algemeen Handelsblad and De Telegraaf. Besides the reviewing as such, the articles consisted of stories about film industries in a general way, gossip about film stars, or informative prose relative to technological innovations in movie making. An explicit theory of film criticism was never written by any of these early film journalists. But close reading of the articles these critics have written, reveals the most important criteria seem to have been intrigue, acting, mise-en-scene, and technique. The plot made out the largest part of the review; it was meticulously summarized and tuned in mild irony. Acting was considered one of the most important qualities of the cinema. Mise-en-scene and technique were mentioned less often, but were sometimes considered to have an important function in the film. When a film was presented as a work of art by the studio or cinema, artistic merit was a criterion. But when it was 'only' meant to amuse, its quality was measured by other standards, such as suspense in the case of a thriller or humor in the case of a burlesque.

Portrayal of Indonesia's Reform in the Dutch Print Media

This article assesses the nature of news coverage on Indonesia in the online versions of three Dutch (two national, one regional) newspapers and the paper version of a current affairs magazine. The research literature points to five recurrent frames in news reporting: conflict, human interest, economic impact, morality, responsibility. Our central research question is: how does news reporting on Indonesia in Dutch newspapers as well as in one Dutch current affairs magazine reflect these frames? The period of scrutiny starts with the coverage of the student riots in May 1998, leading up to Suharto's resignation, Habibi's Cabinet, the elections and the beginning of Wahid's presidency, until April 2000. In-depth interviews were also conducted with media-makers and experts on Indonesia with respect to their perception of the overall quality of the Dutch news reporting on Indonesia.

Contextual constraints on causal sequencing in informational texts

When expressing a causative situation, one of the choices speakers/ writers have to make is whether the cause or the consequence should be the starting point of the causal utterance, i.e. how the two elements should be ordered with respect to each other. This article discusses a number of discursive constraints that seem to play a role in the selection of either forward causal constructions (CAUSE connective CONSEQUENCE) or postposed or preposed backward constructions (respectively, CONSEQUENCE connective CAUSE and connective CAUSE, CONSEQUENCE) in Dutch newspaper articles. Combining the previous research of Schiffrin (1985), Renkema (1996) and the Prague School work on information flow and information distribution, it could be established that a majority of these constructions are highly sensitive to the surrounding discourse. In particular, it appeared that writers tend to organise their discourse in function of prior and upcoming topics of discourse. This was quantified in a written corpus analysis based on the forward connectives dus, daarom, daardoor and the backward connectives aangezien, omdat, doordat.