Portrayal of Engineers and Engineering in US Broadcast Network Television Evening News Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 147 (3) ◽  
pp. 04021001
Author(s):  
Shakuntala Rao ◽  
Mandar M. Dewoolkar
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Network Television ◽  
Evening News ◽  
Broadcast Network

scholarly journals Key Melanesian media freedom challenges: Climate crisis, internet freedoms, fake news and West Papua

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Self Determination ◽  
Freedom Of Information ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Network Television ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
West Papua ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
Climate Crisis

Melanesia, and the microstates of the Pacific generally, face the growing influence of authoritarian and secretive values in the region—projected by both China and Indonesia and with behind-the-scenes manipulation. There is also a growing tendency for Pacific governments to use unconstitutional, bureaucratic or legal tools to silence media and questioning journalists. Frequent threats of closing Facebook and other social media platforms and curbs on online freedom of information are another issue. While Pacific news media face these challenges, their support networks are being shaken by the decline of Australia as a so-called ‘liberal democracy’ and through the undermining of its traditional region-wide public interest media values with the axing of Radio Australia and Australia Network television. Reporting climate change is the Pacific’s most critical challenge while Australian intransigence over the issue is subverting the region’s media. This article engages with and examines these challenges and also concludes that the case of West Papua is a vitally important self-determination issue that left unresolved threatens the security of the region.

Presidential Leadership, the News Media, and Income Inequality

2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 157-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha ◽  
Ronald J. McGauvran
Keyword(s):  
Income Inequality ◽  
News Media ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Online News ◽  
Newspaper Coverage ◽  
Network Television ◽  
Federal Policies ◽  
The Public ◽  
News Websites

Most research on media in the post-broadcast age of politics focuses on how media affect the public, not on the interinstitutional relationships between the presidency and news media. This study tackles this important topic by studying news coverage of and presidential attention to the issue of income inequality. We use web scraping and text analysis software to build a dataset of weekly news coverage from 1999 through 2013, across traditional and nontraditional media, including newspapers, broadcast and cable television transcripts, and online news websites. The data show that presidential attention to income inequality influences the income inequality news agenda across all sources except network television and affects the tone of newspaper coverage. Presidential influence of tone is especially pronounced on income inequality issues that have an international focus. The implications of this paper are significant not only for understanding how media and the presidency interact in the post-broadcast age but also for the prospects for federal policies that may combat income inequality.

Network Television Evening News Coverage of Infectious Disease Events

1990 ◽  
Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Greenberg ◽  
Daniel Wartenberg
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Network Television ◽  
Evening News

Religious Conservatives and TV News: Are They More Likely to be Religiously Offended?

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 626-644 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert A Thomson ◽  
Jerry Z Park ◽  
Diana Kendall
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
Equal Opportunity ◽  
Religious Service Attendance ◽  
Evening News ◽  
Cable News ◽  
Politics And Religion ◽  
Political Conservatism ◽  
Biblical Literalism ◽  
White Evangelicals ◽  
Using Data

AbstractPartisan selectivity of news media and attitudinal polarization are linked, yet the bulk of research focuses on the role of political attitudes while neglecting religious dispositions. We consider the degree to which both network and cable news media offend viewers in terms of both politics and religion. Using data from the 2010 Baylor Religion Survey, we find that white evangelicals have higher odds than mainline Protestants of reporting taking offense from the evening news, as well as higher odds than religious non-affiliates of being offended by both types of news. The primary divide, however, was between affiliates and non-affiliates, as biblical literalism and religious exclusivism at least partially mediated differences between white evangelicals and mainliners in taking offense from the evening news. Religious service attendance at least partially mediated differences between affiliates and non-affiliates in taking offense from both types of news, but while political conservatism explained differences in being offended by the evening news, it was not a significant predictor of taking offense from cable news. We suggest that this is due to processes of media differentiation that make cable news an equal-opportunity offender.

scholarly journals Improving Communication Through Public Relations Research1

1999 ◽  
Vol 1999 (1) ◽  
pp. 1141-1142
Author(s):  
Jim Milbury
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Public Relations ◽  
News Media ◽  
Public Perception ◽  
Public Affairs ◽  
Corporate Image ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
Evening News ◽  
Corporate Executives

ABSTRACT Public affairs programs often communicate with their customers, or publics, in simply one direction. During a pollution incident press releases are generated and sent to the news media, corporate executives give positive sound bites for the evening news, and reporters' questions are answered. Evidence of whether the response and cleanup was successful is typically evaluated by the slant of the television or newspaper reports. However, public opinion may radically differ with what is being reported. It is important, therefore, to have a public relations methodology established to directly measure public opinion. It is especially important to measure a “baseline” opinion before an incident occurs that will help determine the variance of public perception in your community and clearly determine if, and by how much, your corporate image has been damaged or improved. This paper will offer usable suggestions of how to measure, both quantitatively and qualitatively, public opinion.

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