scholarly journals Silent Spring and the New York Times: How Rachel Carson Won the Journey

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-22
Author(s):  
Kushal S. Shah
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Rachel Carson ◽  
Current State ◽  
Silent Spring ◽  
Over Time

This paper explores people’s reception of and attitudes toward Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, originally published in 1962. Research was conducted entirely through the lens of The New York Times (NYT) articles ranging from before the book’s publication to the present. The articles vary heavily in perspective, representing a range of views towards Carson’s vilification of both the pesticide industry and general American attitudes regarding environmental conservation. Articles from NYT represent public opinion well because the chosen articles come from views representing a variety of sources (corporations, scientists, book reviewers, historians, etc.) and perspectives ranging from maximum support to open criticism of the book. When observed over time, research into these articles tells the story of the change in acceptance of Silent Spring – how it has reached its current state of reverence and influence. This paper comprehensively examines a variety of articles regarding Silent Spring and America’s environmental efforts, tracking the change of general attitudes over the 50 years since its publication.

Protests on the Front Page: Media Salience, Institutional Dynamics, and Coverage of Collective Action in the New York Times, 1960-1995

2015 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick Rafail ◽  
Edward T. Walker ◽  
John D. McCarthy
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Social Institutions ◽  
Past Research ◽  
Front Page ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Institutional Dynamics ◽  
Page Placement ◽  
Over Time

Past research has illuminated consistent patterns in the type of protests that receive media attention. Still, we know relatively little about the differential prominence editors assign to events deemed worthy of coverage. We argue that while media routines shape whether events are covered, mass media organizations, social institutions, and systemic changes are important factors in determinations of prominence. To examine patterns of prominence, this study analyzes the factors influencing page placement patterns of protests covered in the New York Times, 1960-1995. We find that (1) protests are less likely to appear prominently over time, but this effect is conditioned by the paper’s editorial and publishing regime; (2) regime effects were especially consequential for civil rights and peace protests; (3) effects of event size and violence weakened over time; and (4) events embedded within larger cycles of protest coverage during less constricted news cycles were more likely to be featured prominently.

The New York Times and Public Opinion Research: A Criticism

1967 ◽  
Vol 44 (4) ◽  
pp. 654-658 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerhart D. Wiebe
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Public Opinion Research ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Newspaper Editors ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Times

Using five examples from the Times of faulty treatment of stories dealing with polls and opinion research, the author of this essay pleads for a better understanding of the subject by newspaper editors.

scholarly journals “Neglected, Ignored, and Abandoned”? The Working Class in Popular U.S. Culture

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Reeve Vanneman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
Working Class ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Class Inclusion ◽  
Job Titles ◽  
Mining Methods ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Over Time

This paper develops new text-mining methods to measure the recognition of American workers in the U.S. press and in American movies. The text-mining program searches 167,193 newspaper articles and 18,056 movie plots for over 35,000 job titles and codes them into standard U.S. Census occupational categories. These occupations are then recoded into common definitions of the working class and tracked over time. For The New York Times since 1980, recognition of working-class jobs has not declined, but it was always low. For regional American papers like the St. Louis Post Gazette, the Detroit News, or the Tampa Bay Times, working-class occupations had once enjoyed higher levels of recognition, but the rates have declined recently to levels similar to the New York Times. U.S. produced movies show a similar decline since 1930 in working-class inclusion.

The New York. Times' Stance on Nixon and Public Opinion

1976 ◽  
Vol 53 (4) ◽  
pp. 723-727
Author(s):  
Chan Ying Kwong ◽  
Kenneth Starck
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The New York Times

scholarly journals Do Mass Media Shape Public Opinion toward China? Quantitative Evidence on New York Times with Deep Learning

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junming Huang ◽  
Gavin G. Cook ◽  
Yu Xie
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
One Year

Do mass media influence people's opinion of other countries? Using BERT, a deep neural network-based natural language processing model, we analyze a large corpus of 267,907 China-related articles published by The New York Times since 1970. We then compare our output from The New York Times to a longitudinal data set constructed from 101 cross-sectional surveys of the American public's views on China. We find that the reporting of The New York Times on China in one year explains 54% of the variance in American public opinion on China in the next. Our result confirms hypothesized links between media and public opinion and helps shed light on how mass media can influence public opinion of foreign countries.

The Changing Presentation of Death in the Obituary, 1899–1999

2007 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 325-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason B. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Social Control ◽  
New York Times ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Over Time

Obituaries from the New York Times are examined at three points to illuminate changing conceptions of death. The findings are twofold. Changes in the obituary demonstrate how the locus of social control over death has shifted from nature and God, to medicine and most recently to the individual. Additionally, it is shown that descriptions of biophysical aspects of the dying process are marginalized over time and that there is more frequent use of language that emphasizes death-resistant themes in the most recent obituaries. This finding exemplifies the observation of increasing claims to authority over mortality by individuals in recent decades.

scholarly journals Large-scale quantitative evidence of media impact on public opinion toward China

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Junming Huang ◽  
Gavin G. Cook ◽  
Yu Xie
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
New York Times ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Data Set ◽  
The New York Times ◽  
Quantitative Evidence

AbstractDo mass media influence people’s opinions of other countries? Using BERT, a deep neural network-based natural language processing model, this study analyzes a large corpus of 267,907 China-related articles published by The New York Times since 1970. The output from The New York Times is then compared to a longitudinal data set constructed from 101 cross-sectional surveys of the American public’s views on China, revealing that the reporting of The New York Times on China in one year explains 54% of the variance in American public opinion on China in the next. This result confirms hypothesized links between media and public opinion and helps shed light on how mass media can influence the public opinion of foreign countries.

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