Profile:Faces in the news: Network television news coverage of Hurricane Hugo and the Loma Prieta earthquake

1993 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-232 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynne Masel Walters ◽  
Susanna Hornig
Keyword(s):  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Network Television ◽  
Loma Prieta Earthquake ◽  
Loma Prieta ◽  
Hurricane Hugo

Network Television News Coverage of Environmental Risks

1989 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 16-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael R. Greenberg ◽  
Peter M. Sandman ◽  
David B. Sachsman ◽  
Kandice L. Salomone
Keyword(s):  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Environmental Risks ◽  
Network Television

Introduction

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aniko Bodroghkozy
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Civil Rights Movement ◽  
Common Sense ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Prime Time ◽  
Network Television ◽  
Black And White ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Black Empowerment

This book examines the role played by American network television in reconfiguring a new “common sense” about race relations during the civil rights revolution. Drawing on stories told both by television news coverage and prime time entertainment, it explores the relationship among the civil rights movement, television, audiences, and partisans on either side of the black empowerment struggle. In particular, it considers the recurring theme that America's racial story was one of color-blind equality grounded on a vision of “black and white together.” The book concludes that television had an ambivalent place in the civil rights revolution. More specifically, it argues that network television sought to represent a rapidly shifting consensus on what “blackness” and “whiteness” meant and how they now fit together. Network television premised equality on a largely white definition whereby African Americans were ready for equal time to the extent that their representations conformed to whitened standards of middle-class and professional respectability.

The Return of Civil Rights Television

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aniko Bodroghkozy
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Network Television ◽  
White House ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Television Shows ◽  
Civil Rights Movements ◽  
The 1960S

This book has explored how network television mobilized a certain type of image that, when appropriately paired with figures of whiteness, was presumed to make whites less anxious about social change. It has highlighted a common link in these representations of a dignified blackness intertwined with an accommodating and welcoming whiteness. It has considered a number of television shows, including East Side/West Side and Good Times, to emphasize the propensity of networks to tell narratives relating to “black and white together,” the “worthy black victim,” and the aspirational “civil rights subject.” This epilogue examines television news coverage of Barack Obama's historic election as president of the United States. It suggests that networks were returning to the familiar discourse about the civil rights movements during the 1960s as they packaged stories that celebrated black and white voters coming together to put a biracial black man into the White House, to make Americans feel good about their country and its race relations.

National network television news coverage of contraception — a content analysis

Contraception ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 98-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth W. Patton ◽  
Michelle H. Moniz ◽  
Lauren S. Hughes ◽  
Lorraine Buis ◽  
Joel Howell
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Network Television ◽  
National Network

The world of U.S. network television news: Eighteen years of international and foreign news coverage

1992 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
William J. Gonzenbach ◽  
M. David Arant ◽  
Robert L. Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Network Television ◽  
The World ◽  
Foreign News

UNDERSTANDING MASS MEDIA COVERAGE OF DISEASE CLUSTERS

1990 ◽  
Vol 132 (supp1) ◽  
pp. 192-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
MICHAEL GREENBERG ◽  
DANIEL WARTENBERG
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Network Television ◽  
Disease Clusters ◽  
Health Events ◽  
Conflicting Information ◽  
Health Practitioners ◽  
The Mass Media

Abstract The responsibility of informing the general public about disease clusters belongs to health investigators. In the majority of instances the investigators must send their messages through the mass media. The authors analyzed nightly network television news coverage of disease clusters during the period 1978–1987, and newspaper coverage of four disease clusters. Formal content analysis of about 600 stories showed that the mass media focuses on human interest, conflicting information, blame, and political symbolism in their coverage of clustered health events. The authors offer suggestions to health practitioners about improving their communications with journalists.

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