- From the Asian Barometer (Philippine data): news exposure and voting are high, (internal) political efficacy is low
- Internal political efficacy indicators (Niemi et al, 1991, p. 1408)
- What do Filipino voters (not) learn from TV news? What the two top-rating news programs covered during the first five months of the 2016 election period (Jan. 10 to May 8, 2016, excluding the 30 days after election, Comelec Resolution 9981)
- Why TV news? Why not newspapers?
- AGB Nielsen Philippines TV ratings, via pep.ph
- The literature (scholar.google.com, DLSU EBSCO)
- Online archives on YouTube: GMA 24 Oras ('24 Oras News Today'), daily episodes; ABS TV Patrol ('ABS-CBN News') search by month, stories
- Limitation - Since it is up to the stations whether to upload the material to their YouTube channels, the online archives may not totally correspond to what is actually broadcast.
- Key questions: Does the story help the viewer to
- ... be well qualified to participate in politics?
- ... have a pretty good understanding of the important political issues facing our country?
- ... be better informed about politics and government than most people?
- ... make politics and government less complicated that the viewer can understand what's going on?
- ... have any say about what government does?
- ... think that public officials care much what people like her thinks?
- What stories to select. Coding variables. See The British Election Study codeframe
Campaign period: started Feb. 9, 2016
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