J 2024

Just a “Mouthpiece of Biased Elites?” Populist Party Sympathizers and Trust in Czech Public Service Media

SMEJKAL, Klára, Jakub MACEK, Lukáš SLAVÍK and Jan ŠEREK

Basic information

Original name

Just a “Mouthpiece of Biased Elites?” Populist Party Sympathizers and Trust in Czech Public Service Media

Authors

SMEJKAL, Klára (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Jakub MACEK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Lukáš SLAVÍK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Jan ŠEREK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

The International Journal of Press/Politics, Thousand Oaks, Sage, 2024, 1940-1612

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50800 5.8 Media and communications

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

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Impact factor

Impact factor: 4.800 in 2022

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

DOI

UT WoS

000894051200001

Keywords in English

Public Service Media; populism; anti-media populism; trust in media; political attitudes; trust in Public Service Media

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 7/3/2024 12:30, Mgr. Blanka Farkašová

Abstract

V originále

Existing research indicates that people with populist attitudes express lower trust in media, especially in Public Service Media. It is assumed that these people are alienated because of their values: populist ideology stems from anti-pluralism whereas Public Service Media promotes pluralism. This study tests this assumption by comparing the predictors of trust in Public Service Media between the populist party sympathizers and the sympathizers of other political parties in the Czech Republic. Two main expectations were included as predictors for trust in Public Service Media, specifically that media should conform to one's worldview (i.e., the cohesive dimension of trust in media) and that media should adhere to the normative standards of journalism (i.e., the normative dimension of trust in media). Using multigroup structural equation modeling, the study analyzes data from a 2019–2020 representative survey of the adult Czech population (N  =  3,251). The results suggest that, for the populist party sympathizers, trust in Public Service Media links only to their expectation that media should conform to their worldview, while the sympathizers of other political parties expect normative standards to be maintained. This is interpreted and discussed as support for the assumption that this value-based mismatch links to the populist audience members' lower trust in Public Service Media.

Links

GA19-09103S, research and development project
Name: Důvěra v média ve fragmentovaném mediálním prostředí: Případ České republiky
Investor: Czech Science Foundation

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