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Abstract Nowadays, the democratic (public) potential of popular journalism is seldom denied. Generally speaking, however, journalism is celebrated when it reports current affairs but denounced when it focuses on private or emotional matters. It is common knowledge in cultural studies that underneath this split between "popular" journalism and so called "quality" journalism lies a gendered and ethnocentric concept of "journalistic quality" and, I would add, of citizenship. Partly as a reaction to the widely discussed media presentation of a "wave" of child murders, partly as a result of research commissioned by the Dutch PBS NOS Gender Portrayal Department, I have developed an alternative notion of "public" or "civic" quality. In this article I hope to shed some light on the possibility of incorporating "emotions", "everyday life" and a "relative sense of self" into a more inclusive concept of public quality, media and citizenship. Keywords: Journalism Popular Culture Citizenship Quality Ethics Talk Shows
Irene Costera Meijer (Tue,) studied this question.