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oa Boekpublicaties over humorschandalen
Een eerste verkenning van de ‘ophefduider’
- Amsterdam University Press
- Source: Jaarboek voor Nederlandse Boekgeschiedenis, Volume 32, Issue 2025, Jul 2025, p. 104 - 129
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- 01 Jul 2025
Abstract
This article introduces the new genre of the scandal spinner, a subcategory of the pamphlet in which an already existing public controversy is mapped, discussed and analyzed in detail, and thereby spun in a certain direction. Based on four examples from the 1960s and 70s Netherlands, all related to controversial humorous TV-shows, the article argues that these often cheaply produced booklets are indeed good at giving a particular ideological spin to a scandal, and thus have a part to play in the process of public opinion formation. Next to that, the booklets are also symptomatic of the key role of symbolic and cultural capital within the world of media and journalism, as they can all be linked to the networks of power that ruled this world at the time of publication.