Sleutelen aan wetenschap op televisie. Een kleine geschiedenis van wetenschap op de Nederlandse televisie aan de hand van AVRO's Vinger aan de pols en VPRO's Noorderlicht

A study of the history of medical and science journalism on Dutch public television shows that the representation of science on television has changed over the last 25 years. Scientists and experts no longer play a leading role in medical and science programmes. Experts and journalists have changed places putting the journalist in a central position. This has had consequences for the distribution of speaking time the storyline about science and the design of the programmes. Medical and science journalism has developed in the same way as political and general news journalism on television over... Mehr ...