slutet på sagan prinsessan dianas död i press, radio och tv

ge-based factual information. The purpose,
in this case, is to touch people rather
than inform them. The large news distributors
offer largely the same versions of
the events in focus. Various types of dramatics
are accentuated.
One resultant question is whether journalism
– foreign or Swedish – aimed at a
broad public will change in character in
such a basic way that its informative, commentatorial,
and investigative roles no
longer function, as well as whether the
news media’s independence in relation to
other media branches and advertising will
be diluted completely. Will there, alongside
these broad news-services, be news
media that appeal to a small, affluent audience
with entirely different demands
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for significance, relevance, objectivity and
depth in the news it consumes?
The answers to these questions must
wait for the future and other studies. Princess
Diana’s death was a fairly trivial event,
but its media coverage was hardly trivial.
It showed how events defined as meganews
are treated. The final question is to
what extent features of the reporting on
the Princess’s death can be generalised to
other and considerably more important
events, such as various national/world
crises. Several big news events occurring
after Princess Diana’s death indicate that
events defined as meganews are reported
in a similar fashion regardless of the topic.
This is the most important aspect of the
end of the saga of Princess Diana.