Media Spectacle in Television News: Croatian Parliament Meetings Coverage

U ovom radu istražuje se koliko i kako se izvještava sa sjednica Hrvatskog sabora u središnjim informativnim emisijama dvije hrvatske televizije, HRT-a i Nove TV, s ciljem utvrđivanja zastupljenosti medijskog spektakla u njima. Rad je motiviran uočavanim brojnim izvještajima o konfliktima pa se htjelo provjeriti daje li se prednost sukobima političarima nad informacijom o dnevnom redu. Kombinacijom kvalitativne analize narativa s kvantitativnom analizom sadržaja, pokazalo se da se obje televizije pri izvještavanju sa sjednica uvelike fokusiraju na konfliktne situacije više nego na javni interes te da se koriste elementima medijskog spektakla pri tome, s tim da Nova TV ima više elemenata spektakla. Dnevnik HRT-a je od mogućih 30 puta u razdoblju od 1. ožujka do 31. svibnja 2019., 12 puta izvijestio o sjednicama, a Nova TV 10 puta. Od toga, HRT je 11 puta spomenuo što je bilo na dnevnom redu, premda od toga 4 puta samo usputno da je glavna tema Uljanik ili svađe oko istog, a Nova TV 7 puta. Nije se izvijestilo sa svake sjednice, nego s onih koje su obilježile svađe, kontroverze, rekordi ili bizarnosti. Premda se HRT i Nova TV razlikuju po tome što je HRT javni servis, a Nova TV komercijalna televizija, pri odabiru teme i pristupa istoj nema prevelike razlike. Premda Nova TV doista ima više elemenata medijskog spektakla, ni HRT ne zaostaje puno u tom segmentu.This study focuses on the coverage of the Croatian Parliament's meetings in television news of HRT and Nova TV, two Croatian television channels, in order to determine the amount of media spectacle in both. The motivation behind it is provoked by noticing many reports which solely or mostly focus on conflicts and therefore emerged the interest for conducting the study that would see into whether the television news center their coverage of parliament's meetings around conflict while marginalizing the parliament's daily agenda. By combining both qualitative narrative analysis and quantitative content analysis, the study found out that both televisions do so. Nova TV, as being a commercial rival to the public service broadcaster HRT, constructs its news with more elements of media spectacle than the HRT does. In the observed period, from March 1 to May 31, both televisions had 30 times the opportunity to report about the Croatian Parliament's meetings. HRT took that opportunity 12 times, and Nova TV 10 times. HRT spoke about the parliament's daily discussion topics 11 times, although 4 times out of that they only briefly mentioned Uljanik or fights about it as being the main topic. Nova TV informed its viewers about the daily discussion topics 7 times. Not all meetings were being covered, but the ones that consisted of fights, controversies, records or bizarreness. Although the HRT and the Nova TV differ in organization structure, in choosing and approaching subjects they are very similar. Even though Nova TV has more elements of media spectacle, HRT does not lag too far behind