Revista Latina de Comunicación Social # 068 – Pages 566 to 581 Research funded | DOI: 10.4185/RLCS-2013-990en | ISSN 1138-5820 | Year 2013
records with [the TV shows] Salvados and El intermedio. This was affirmed by Planeta, the owner of Antena 3, when protecting the identity of this refuge between progressive and indignant in a DTT full of chat shows frayed with cat‟s names" (Culebrón, 17-2, 2013). Table 1. Parallelism between voted party and TV channel chosen to obtain elections news (%)
Source: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, Estudio 2920. Abbreviations: PP: Partido Popular (Popular Party) PSOE: Partido Español Obrero Socialista (Spanish Socialist Workers‟ Party) IU/ICV: Izquierda Unida/Iniciativa per Catalunya Verds (United Left/Initiative per Catalonia-Green Party) UPyD: Union Progreso y Democracia (Progress and Democracy Union) CiU: Convergència i Unió (Convergence and Union) As pointed out by Hallin and Mancini (2004), one of the indicators of parallelism is the degree in which the media content reflects the different political orientations, which can be achieved through a system of internal or external pluralism. A system based on internal pluralism is that in which a media organisation does not show a defined political orientation but a diversity of points of view, and in which the professional role assumed by journalistic is more directed towards neutral information than towards interpretive journalism. In contrast, a system of external pluralism predominates in media systems with a strong political parallelism, like the Spanish case (Hallin and Mancini, 2004: 30). Along the same line, Kaid and Strömbäck (2006: 425-426) claim that “objective and impartial information is important in media systems that are governed by internal pluralism but not so much in media systems governed by external pluralism”. The second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth hypotheses of this study address the presence of these indicators of pluralism and parallelism in TV news programmes. As we have pointed out in a previous article (Humanes and Montero, 2013: 168-169), the content analyses aimed at measuring internal and external pluralism in our country have not measured these indicators, which makes this study more interesting as it can complement the previous works carried out by academics (Laporte and Sádaba, 2005) and the audiovisual councils of Catalonia and Andalusia. 2. Objectives and hypotheses
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