Mediers makt eller politikerslakt? : En fallstudie rörande medierapporteringen om de kvinnliga respektive manliga ministrarna under ministerskandalen 2006

• Main Authors: Merkel, Rebecka, Donaldson, Linnea
• Format: Others
• Language: Swedish
• Published: Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för lärande, humaniora och samhälle 2021
• Subjects: political scandals; mediated scandals; ministerskandalen 2006; framing; agendasetting; Maria Borelius; Cecilia Stegö Chilò; Tobias Billström; Anders Borg; politiska skandaler; medierade skandaler ministerskandalen 2006; gestaltning; Political Science; Statsvetenskap
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-44885

The aim of this analytical research is to find out if there is a difference in how many articles that were published regarding the ministers Maria Borelius, Cecilia Stegö Chilò, Tobias Billström and Anders Borg, during the period 6/10 - 6/12 2006 in Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter. The study also aims to examine if there is a difference in how the ministers are framed and portrayed in a selection of the articles. The study combines both quantitative and qualitative methods. Initially, articles were gathered from Mediearkrivet Research Retriever. Then, a selection of the empirical data was analyzed qualitative from the theoretical perspectives of the framing theory and the agenda-setting theory, with a tool of analysis from Bromander (2012). The empirical material consists of 12 published news-articles from two of the most powerful public newspapers in Sweden: Aftonbladet and Dagens Nyheter. The result shows that there is a difference in the number of published articles regarding the female ministers, compared with the male ministers. It also confirms previous research that female and male politicians’ frames and describes differently: the female ministers are more often described as liars and portrayed next to their families. The articles regarding the female ministers are more likely to investigate their private life, while the articles about the male ministers only refers to their professional life as politicians.