Condrup, Mette Grube

Duvier, Frederikke Hult

Hansen, Michael Hovmand

Hestehauge, Julie Pastoft

Larsen, Cecilie Nathalie Toft

Paulsen, Christoffer Munch

In 2011 the government for the first time demanded that Danmarks Radio, a danish publicservice-station, should reflect the danish christian cultural heritage. This created a lot ofdebate in the media, and many criticized the claim of christianity in public service to restrictthe independence of journalists. This paper examines the news coverage of the subject in2011 and 2018 by using a quantitative content analysis, and examines whether the newscoverage was balanced or not. The balance is analysed by using Erik Albæk, David Hopmannand Claes de Vresses concepts of balance. The two years of news coverage are compared in acomparative analysis. The results are discussed in relation to Gaye Tuchman’s journalisticstrategies to attempt objectivity. The concept of objectivity and balance in terms ofjournalistic practices are compared. In 2011 the news coverage was predominantlyunbalanced and in 2018 it was predominantly balanced. Furthermore we found out thatobjectivity is an unachievable goal in itself, but it is possible to live up to a few specificrequirements of balance

Media coverage in Denmark of the requirement in the public service contract to involve a Christian heritage

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