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The present paper describes a content analysis of the coverage of the events related to September 11th 2001 by the Dutch Children's News. Since 1980, the Dutch Broadcasting Corporation broadcasts a daily children's news programme (Jeugdjournaal) that is specifically designed for children aged 9–12. The Children's News selects news topics on the basis of their news value, which also implies coverage of violence and crime. To offset possible harmful effects of a violent news topic, the Children's News usually applies several ‘consolation strategies’. These strategies may be applied at the programme level (e.g. alternating ‘heavy’ and ‘light’ topics), at the level of the news item (e.g. taking a child perspective, inclusion of reassuring comments), and at the shot level (e.g. not showing the most graphic film footage). In the present study, it was investigated to what extent the Children's News applied these consolation strategies in the first week after the attack on the World Trade Center in New York.
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