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Violence in TV News: The Cultivation of Emotions

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The burning monk, children fleeing from napalm bombs, the execution of a Vietcong officer in front of the camera: The Vietnam war changed TV news reports decisively. The cruelty of the “first television war” (Harris, 1989, p. 152) was transmitted to the living rooms every evening and quite a few journalists and media researchers believe that this shortened the war considerably. However, Vietnam has certainly led to a permanent change in the way of reporting on TV. Pictures of horror have become perfectly common, initially in the USA and since then in Europe as well.

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Winterhoff-Spurk, P. (1997). Violence in TV News: The Cultivation of Emotions. In: Winterhoff-Spurk, P., van der Voort, T.H.A. (eds) New Horizons in Media Psychology. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-10899-3_7

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