Neutrality in broadcast news: “The left is hurting terribly”
The study investigates the ways in which the Dutch standard news programme NOS-journaal and the alternative PowNews practice neutrality and deal with political perspectives. The analysis focuses on question design, support and evaluation. The results show that neither edition of news programmes on the national channel is neutral. However, they differ in their non-neutrality.
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Example 8: Evaluation in the trailor, immediately after the headline and before the news kernel, voiced by an expert interviewee (0:13)

Example 10: Evaluation at the beginning, in the middel and at the end of an interview and voiced by interviewer and interviewee (1:10)

Example 12: Political position, initiated by the interviewer, popping up in the middel of a news item and continued by the interviewee (0:11)