scholarly journals US media’s coverage of China’s handling of COVID-19: Playing the role of the fourth branch of government or the fourth estate?

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 8-23
Author(s):  
Wenshan Jia ◽  
Fangzhu Lu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Wall Street Journal ◽  
The United States ◽  
Food Culture ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Wall Street Journal ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Domestic Affairs

The present study is an analysis of a sample of reports on China’s handling of COVID-19 by several major US media with a focus on a controversial op-ed by the Wall Street Journal. It is found that instead of covering it objectively as a public health crisis, these media reports tend to adopt the strategy of naming, shaming, blaming, and taming against China. In other words, they seize the outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan as an opportunity to serve Trump’s “America First” doctrine by a coordinated attempt to destroy the Chinese dream and arresting China’s ascendency. First, the naming/shaming technique is used to tarnish China’s image as a virus. The op-ed on the Wall Street Journal describes China as “the real sick man of Asia.” In addition, a cluster of ferociously negative names are slung onto China to describe the coronavirus as “the Wuhan virus,” “the Belt & Road Initiative pandemic,” “the China virus,” and so on. Second, the blaming technique is applied. On top of such negative name-calling, these media tend to blame the Chinese leadership, the political system, and finally Chinese food culture for eating pangolins. Finally, the taming technique is used to constrain, isolate, or quarantine China. One goal behind such a China threat strategy is to fan American or foreign businesses to move (back) to the United States out of China. Another goal is to create the public opinion environment that would be conducive to some American groups’ litigations against China. It is concluded that American mainstream media while quarreling with the Trump administration for domestic affairs seem to be colluding with the conservative intellectual base in the United States in supporting Trump’s strategy to knock down and divide China.

scholarly journals Financial discourse of the 2007–2008 crisis: From unpredictability and explosion to predictability

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 282-293
Author(s):  
Griselda Zárate ◽  
Homero Zambrano
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Economic Crisis ◽  
Wall Street Journal ◽  
Inflection Point ◽  
Wide Spectrum ◽  
The United States ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
The Wall Street Journal ◽  
The Moment

This paper aims to identify the inflection point in financial discourse, the moment of explosion and unpredictability in the 2007–2008 economic crisis, through an analysis of metaphors, and its relation to the concept of jumps in finance. The corpus is formed by articles dating from 2007–2008 published in The Wall Street Journal and related to the movements of the Standard & Poor’s 500 index (S&P500) of the United States. For the purposes of this paper, two texts are analysed: “Traders in Lehman, AIG held out hope – Friday”, and the speech “Four questions about the financial crisis” by Ben S. Bernanke. What is of particular interest is the transformation of unpredictability to predictability, as incorporated in this type of discourse to indicate a predetermined chain of events, chosen from a wide spectrum of possibilities. The theoretical framework draws on Juri Lotman’s views on the concepts of explosion, unpredictability, inflection point and predictability.

RAILROAD INVESTING AND THE IMPORTANCE OF FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING INFORMATION IN 1880s AMERICA

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel E. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Accounting Information ◽  
The United States ◽  
Financial Accounting ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
New Information ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Comprehensive Search ◽  
The Wall Street Journal

This study has a two-fold purpose. First, it seeks to determine the importance of financial accounting information to railroad investors (and speculators) in 1880s America. Second, a further goal is to ascertain what financial accounting information was readily available for use by these investors. Based on a comprehensive search of books of the era, the 1880s were a time of expanding advice for railroad securities holders that required the use of financial accounting information. Furthermore, new information sources arose to help service investors' needs. Statistics by Goodsell and The Wall Street Journal were two such sources. This article reviews these publications along with the ongoing Commercial and Financial Chronicle and Poor's Manual of the Railroads of the United States. Each of these sources helped railroad investors to follow contemporary advice of gathering financial accounting and other information when investing.

scholarly journals Remarks by Kristina Irion

2018 ◽  
Vol 112 ◽  
pp. 220-226
Author(s):  
Kristina Irion
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Data Protection ◽  
Wall Street Journal ◽  
The United States ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
To Come

Hello to everyone. It is sometimes difficult to come from Europe and talk about a rather formalistic legal approach to data protection to a legal audience in the United States. I have to say when I read the Wall Street Journal at breakfast, it was a good moment. They are not going to rip me apart.

The Samsung–Apple patent war: Socio-cultural comparative study of news frames in a business conflict issue

2018 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-65
Author(s):  
Wan-Soo Lee ◽  
Min-Kyu Lee ◽  
Seok Kang ◽  
Jae-Woong Yoo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Wall Street Journal ◽  
The United States ◽  
The South ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
News Frames ◽  
South Korean ◽  
The U.S

This study explored a comparative analysis of how the South Korean and United States media framed the Samsung–Apple patent lawsuit. The South Korean and U.S. media have a tendency to report Samsung–Apple patent disputes in a completely different angle. While framing in favor of Samsung was frequent in South Korea, neutral frames were dominant in the United States. The South Korean newspapers showed a stronger nationalism in favor of Samsung, whereas the U.S. newspapers portrayed the business conflict in the market logic. The South Korean and U.S. newspapers also showed differences in framing according to the ideological characteristics of the newspaper. In South Korea, the main conservative newspaper ( Chosun Ilbo) framed the issue in favor of Samsung and the largest liberal newspaper ( Hankyoreh) revealed a tendency to frame it in favor of Apple. However, in the United States, only the main business newspaper ( Wall Street Journal) favored Apple. This study contributes to news framing research in that socio-cultural divergences, framing pool (e.g., generic frames vs. issue-specific frames), and journalistic contexts considered systematically.

scholarly journals Research on the Coverage of the Belt and Road Initiative and a Community with Shared Future for Mankind by Mainstream Media in the United States——Taking the three major mainstream media in the United States as an example

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (8) ◽  
Author(s):  
Congjuan Yu ◽  
Jing Yan
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The United States ◽  
Belt And Road Initiative ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Belt And Road ◽  
The Wall Street Journal ◽  
The Belt And Road

Since China put forward the Belt and Road Initiative and a community with shared future for mankind, mainstream media in the United States such as The Washington Post, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have given continuous reports. As the world’s superpower, the United States has a developed media system and a wide range of influence. The study extracted 173 valid texts from May 2015 to March 2020, among which only 5 reports were on a community with shared future for mankind. American media mainly reported from five aspects including economy, politics, cultural, security and environment, although there is no lack of certain sounds, there was more negative reports. It can provide a reference basis for our accurate response and creating a positive international public opinion environment that grasping the reporting trends on the Belt and Road Initiative and a community with shared future for mankind accurately.

scholarly journals ONE YEAR LATER AND THE MYTH OF A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 247-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael C. Dawson ◽  
Lawrence D. Bobo
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Wall Street Journal ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The United States ◽  
White Americans ◽  
Substantial Evidence ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
One Year

Many commentators, both conservative and liberal, have celebrated the election of Barack Obama as president of the United States, claiming the election signified America has truly become a “post-racial” society. It is not just Lou Dobbs who argues the United States in the “21st century [is a] post-partisan, post-racial society.” This view is consistent with beliefs the majority of White Americans have held for well over a decade: that African Americans have achieved, or will soon achieve, racial equality in the United States despite substantial evidence to the contrary. Indeed, this view is consistent with opinions found in the Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and elsewhere—attitudes that even the tragic events following the Katrina disaster had nothing to do with race.

Overuse of five expensive oncology pharmaceuticals in the southeastern United States: A physician-level analysis.

2014 ◽  
Vol 32 (30_suppl) ◽  
pp. 33-33
Author(s):  
Charles L. Bennett ◽  
Dinah Faith Q. Huff ◽  
William S. Shimp ◽  
Anmol Baranwal ◽  
Avinash Mamgain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Southeastern United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Specific Drug ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Related Factors ◽  
High User ◽  
The Wall Street Journal ◽  
Oncology Providers ◽  
Very High

33 Background: The Wall Street Journal recently identified that the highest rates of use of erythropoietin to Medicare-covered persons with cancer in the United States was by 11 oncologists who practiced in Florida (WSJ, June 20, 2014). We asked a related, but similar question: Could chemotherapy claims databases be used to identify individual physicians in the southeastern United States who had high rates of prescribing five expensive oncology agents: levoleucovorin (Fusilev), palonosetron plus fosapretitant (Aloxi+Emend), peg-filgastrim (Neulasta), albumin-paclitaxel (Abraxane), and epoetin/darbepoetin? Methods: Chemotherapy requests for more than 2,000 oncologists who practiced in the southeastern United States for the years 2012- 2014 were reviewed. A “high user” oncology provider for a specific drug was operationally defined as an individual whose number of prescriptions for the specific drug was more than 2 standard deviations above that for other oncology providers whose chemotherapy requests were also contained in the same database. Results: Two out of 1,479 oncology providers were identified as “extremely high users” of expensive oncology drugs (operationally defined as a high user for 5 of the 5 study drugs), two were “very high users” of expensive oncology drugs (a high user for 4 of the 5 study drugs), and 25 were “high users” (a high user for three of the five study drugs). The overwhelming majority of oncology providers (1,450) were neither extremely high, very high, nor even high users of the five study drugs. Conclusions: In the Southeastern United States, a small number of oncology physicians are extremely high, very high, and high users of expensive oncology drugs. Additional studies are needed to evaluate case-mix and other patient-related factors that might explain this finding. Focused quality improvement initiatives might also be considered. [Table: see text]

ANALISIS DIVERSIFIKASI INTERNASIONAL : PEMBENTUKAN PORTOFOLIO OPTIMAL INDEKS SAHAM DUNIA (Studi Kasus Pada Indeks Saham Aktif Dunia Versi The Wall Street Journal)

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rony Mahendra ◽  
Erwin Dyah Astawinetu
Keyword(s):  
Wall Street Journal ◽  
Optimal Portfolio ◽  
Stock Index ◽  
Wall Street ◽  
Expected Return ◽  
Single Index ◽  
Index Model ◽  
Single Index Model ◽  
Stock Indices ◽  
The Wall Street Journal

The research objective is to establish an optimal portfolio and know the difference between risk and return stock index portfolio candidates and non-candidates. Method used in the preparation of this research portfolio is the single index model, while the samples of this study are active world stock indices version of The Wall Street Journal during the period August 2012 - August 2016 and The Global Dow is used as the benchmark stock index. In establishing the optimal portfolio is used two perspectives: the Rupiah perspective and the U.S. Dollar perspective. The results showed there were three stock indices from the perspective of Rupiah and 8 share index menurutperspektif U.S. Dollar that make up the optimal portfolio, with the cut-of-pointsebesar 0,01393menurut Rupiah perspective and the perspective of 0.0078 US Dollars Based on the perspective of return expectations Rupiah obtained by 0.0258 with a risk of 0.06512. Berdarkan perspective of US Dollars, obtained return expectations at 0.0154 with a risk of 0.0292. From the test results showed that the hypothesis, the return on both perspectives there are significant differences between the index of the candidate, with a non-candidate. Then the risk of stock index, among the candidates, with a non-candidate, the Rupiah perspective there is no difference, but in the perspective of US Dollars, there are significant differences.Keywords: Single Index Model, candidate portfolio, optimal portfolio, expected return, excess return to beta, cut-off-point

scholarly journals Letter on Rocket's et al., manuscript: Fatal self-injury in the United States, 1999–2018: Unmasking a national mental health crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 100820
Author(s):  
Julian Santaella-Tenorio ◽  
Tarlise Townsend ◽  
Noa Krawczyk ◽  
David Frank ◽  
Samuel R. Friedman
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Mental Health Crisis ◽  
Health Crisis ◽  
Self Injury ◽  
National Mental Health
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