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Papers by Lisa Huberts
Ever since cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was chosen to be the new pope, he has received plenty of media attention. He is the first Latin-American pope, the first Jesuit pope, and the first pope to take the name of one of the most popular christian saints: Francis of Assisi. Combined with the scandals that have come to light during his predecessor Benedict XVI’s pontificate, and the damage that has consequently been done to the Church’s reputation, it is interesting to see how this new pope is portrayed in the media. To that end, this master’s thesis focuses on the way Pope Francis I is portrayed in six Dutch and Flemish newspapers, from the 13th of march 2013 until the 31st of december 2015.
The choice was made to include a combination of both quality and popular newspapers in this analysis. The selected newspapers are De Volkskrant, Het Algemeen Dagblad and De Telegraaf for The Netherlands, and De Standaard, Het Nieuwsblad and Het Laatste Nieuws for Flanders.
This study consists of both a quantitative and a qualitative approach. The quantitative approach uses statistics to study the media-attention for Pope Francis in the selected newspapers. The qualitative approach consists of an inductive frameanalysis as suggested by Van Gorp (2007, 2010), which is used to reconstruct the different frames that were used to portray the pope in these newspapers. After reconstructing these frames, a comparison is made of the different newspapers, based on their coverage of a specific event.
Based on the statistics it would seem that the Flemish newspapers have had more attention for the pope than the Dutch newspapers. The total amount of times the pope was mentioned in the Flemish newspapers is about 35% higher than the Dutch papers.
The inductive frameanalysis produced eleven different frames: four frames with five different counterframes, and two seperate frames. Although problematising frames are generally dominant within journalism, the deproblematising counterframes were dominant in the articles that were analysed. The pope is generally portrayed in a positive light, with the exception of just one frame, which is also the least used frame within the articles that were analysed. In order to compare the use of these frames by the six selected newspapers,
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one specific topic was chosen to be analysed in depth. It became clear that for this topic, one frame was used by all six newspapers. In some cases this was highly implicit, while more explicit and combined with other, more explicit frames in other cases. It shows that the different newspapers use frames in varying ways, either explicit or implicit, and do not always use the same type of frame for the same piece of news. In order to get a better grasp on the different ways that different newspapers frame Pope Francis I, however, further research is necessary.
Ever since cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was chosen to be the new pope, he has received plenty of media attention. He is the first Latin-American pope, the first Jesuit pope, and the first pope to take the name of one of the most popular christian saints: Francis of Assisi. Combined with the scandals that have come to light during his predecessor Benedict XVI’s pontificate, and the damage that has consequently been done to the Church’s reputation, it is interesting to see how this new pope is portrayed in the media. To that end, this master’s thesis focuses on the way Pope Francis I is portrayed in six Dutch and Flemish newspapers, from the 13th of march 2013 until the 31st of december 2015.
The choice was made to include a combination of both quality and popular newspapers in this analysis. The selected newspapers are De Volkskrant, Het Algemeen Dagblad and De Telegraaf for The Netherlands, and De Standaard, Het Nieuwsblad and Het Laatste Nieuws for Flanders.
This study consists of both a quantitative and a qualitative approach. The quantitative approach uses statistics to study the media-attention for Pope Francis in the selected newspapers. The qualitative approach consists of an inductive frameanalysis as suggested by Van Gorp (2007, 2010), which is used to reconstruct the different frames that were used to portray the pope in these newspapers. After reconstructing these frames, a comparison is made of the different newspapers, based on their coverage of a specific event.
Based on the statistics it would seem that the Flemish newspapers have had more attention for the pope than the Dutch newspapers. The total amount of times the pope was mentioned in the Flemish newspapers is about 35% higher than the Dutch papers.
The inductive frameanalysis produced eleven different frames: four frames with five different counterframes, and two seperate frames. Although problematising frames are generally dominant within journalism, the deproblematising counterframes were dominant in the articles that were analysed. The pope is generally portrayed in a positive light, with the exception of just one frame, which is also the least used frame within the articles that were analysed. In order to compare the use of these frames by the six selected newspapers,
5
one specific topic was chosen to be analysed in depth. It became clear that for this topic, one frame was used by all six newspapers. In some cases this was highly implicit, while more explicit and combined with other, more explicit frames in other cases. It shows that the different newspapers use frames in varying ways, either explicit or implicit, and do not always use the same type of frame for the same piece of news. In order to get a better grasp on the different ways that different newspapers frame Pope Francis I, however, further research is necessary.