Süütegude konstrueerimine Eesti päevalehtedes: süütuse presumptsiooni järgimine ja asjaosaliste hoiakud
Kuupäev
2005
Autorid
Ajakirja pealkiri
Ajakirja ISSN
Köite pealkiri
Kirjastaja
Abstrakt
Kirjeldus
The present research is determined to analyze journalistic discourse on crime
reporting. The study includes three empirical parts: overview on crime reporting in
the Estonian dailies in 2000-2001 plus continuing stories; two qualitative case studies
and qualitatuve interviews with the people involved in the two reported crime cases.
The research method has been triangulation: content analysis, discourse analysis
and the analysis of the interviews. The sample of overview includes 111 cases. The
sample od discourse analysis includes 19 texts (two cases).
The main reseach question is: do the journalistic crime construction brake the
presumption of innnosence and how do the people who are involved perceive
journalistic publications. How do they feel about being information sources or news
subjects?
The database of 111 cases provides a clear understanding that more than half of the
articles were published before the case has been taken to the court. H ence there is a
high possibility to construct a quilt before a court has handled the case.
The main result of the case studies is that journalsts are not able and do not evalute
presumption of innosence while they decide when and how to report crime cases that
are not reached to the court. They do not apply critical analysitical information
processin but rather transmit the voices of their sources. Texts include personal
prejudices of the journalists. The interviewees recognize themselves used by
journalists according to the need for news production. Journalistic publications spoil
relations between the community members. This aspect of the present research could
be developed more in future studies.
Märksõnad
H Social Sciences (General), magistritööd