Research note: negative news and late-night comedy about presidential candidates

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 605-617
Author(s):  
Jody C Baumgartner ◽  
S. Robert Lichter ◽  
Jonathan S. Morris
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Party Identification ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Talk Shows ◽  
Major Party ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Late Night ◽  
Negative News

Abstract In this paper we explore the creation of jokes told on late night talk shows targeted at major party nominees for president from 1992–2008. We hypothesize that the number of jokes told about candidates are related to variations in polling numbers, mainstream media coverage, and party identification of the candidates. Our results show a positive relationship between the number of jokes told at a candidate’s expense and the amount of negative news coverage about the candidate. In addition, we find that Republicans are targeted with more frequency than Democrats. Results suggest that favorability ratings and whether or not a presidential candidate is an incumbent has no effect on the number of jokes targeting a candidate.

Framing the Candidates in Presidential Primaries: Issues and Images in Press Releases and News Coverage

1998 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 312-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Mark Miller ◽  
Julie L. Andsager ◽  
Bonnie P. Riechert
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
Presidential Candidates ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Presidential Primaries ◽  
Computerized Content Analysis ◽  
Elite Newspapers

Media coverage of presidential primaries is crucial to voters, and candidates often complain that news coverage fails to present their positions. This study used computerized content analysis to examine how the 1996 GOP presidential candidates framed themselves in press releases and how elite newspapers covered them. The analysis reveals that (1) candidate images were distinct in press releases and news stories; (2) candidate positions were represented differently in both; and (3) candidates were differentially successful in getting news media to reflect their positions. News media covered substantive concerns that were not included in candidate press releases.

Journalism, Environmental Issues, and Sport Mega-Events: A Study of South Korean Media Coverage of the Mount Gariwang Development for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
pp. 699-728 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liv Yoon ◽  
Brian Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Environmental Politics ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Alternative Media ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Mega Event ◽  
Paralympic Games

Few studies on sport and communication consider how environmental issues are reported on—especially in non-Western media. In this article, we report findings from a study of South Korean mainstream and alternative print media coverage of the controversial development of Mount Gariwang for the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. Our study focused on (1) how the decisions and events unfolding around the development of Mount Gariwang were portrayed in South Korean mainstream and alternative news coverage and (2) how the issues at play were politicized and/or depoliticized within and across these outlets. We found that differences in coverage of environmental issues were starkest between, on one side, conservative mainstream media and, on the other side, left-leaning mainstream and alternative media outlets. We also found that environmental controversies were variably politicized or depoliticized in differently positioned media outlets—with left leaning and alternative media highlighting concerns about Olympic-related hypocrisy and corruption, and right-leaning media usually featuring depoliticizing statements from Olympic and government elites. All media outlets highlighted questions about why viable and existing venues were not being used instead of Mount Gariwang, with economic and environmental issues being emphasized differently across outlets. We conclude with reflections on the relevance of our findings for considering links between sport, mediatization, journalism, and environmental politics and suggestions for future research in international coverage of sport- and mega-event-related environmental issues.

The Economy and Second-Level Agenda Setting: A Time-Series Analysis of Economic News and Public Opinion about the Economy

2003 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joe Bob Hester ◽  
Rhonda Gibson
Keyword(s):  
Time Series ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Economic Evaluations ◽  
Economic News ◽  
Negative News ◽  
Time Series Analyses ◽  
And Performance

Data from a content analysis of forty-eight months of print and broadcast news about the economy were combined in time-series analyses with two indicators of consumer economic evaluations and three measures of real economic conditions to investigate second-level agenda-setting effects. Economic news was framed as negative more often than as positive, and negatively framed news coverage was one of several significant predictors of consumer expectations about the future of the economy. The study supports the argument that media coverage, particularly the media's emphasis on negative news, may have serious consequences for both expectations of and performance of the economy.

The Language of Immigration Coverage: The Arizona Republic and Media’s Role in the Production of Social Illegality

2021 ◽  
pp. 073112142110408
Author(s):  
Daniel R. Alvord ◽  
Cecilia Menjívar
Keyword(s):  
Critical Period ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Letters To The Editor ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Negative News ◽  
The Media ◽  
Legislative Activity ◽  
Arizona Republic ◽  
Newspaper Articles

Recently, several mainstream media organizations have moved away from using “illegal immigrant” in their immigration coverage. While this shift in immigration coverage is positive, seemingly positive language may still be exclusionary, particularly if the content of stories remains the same. We investigate whether newspaper articles that describe immigrants as “illegal” are more negative in content than articles that present immigrants as “undocumented” by analyzing 1,616 newspaper articles and letters to the editor in The Arizona Republic between 2000 and 2016, a critical period of immigration legislative activity in Arizona. We find that The Arizona Republic inundated readers with negative news coverage and that this coverage is baked into the content of stories and transcends the use of either term, “illegal” or “undocumented.” We then draw on letters to the editor and original interview data to consider how social forces outside of the media may influence coverage.

The New News and the 1992 Presidential Campaign: Perceived vs. Actual Political Knowledge

1995 ◽  
Vol 72 (4) ◽  
pp. 786-798 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry A. Hollander
Keyword(s):  
Survey Data ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Political Knowledge ◽  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
Talk Shows ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Public ◽  
Late Night

Nontraditional news coverage, the so-called new news, emerged as a major factor in the 1992 presidential campaign. Little is known, however, about whether attention to the political content of such programs informs the public or simply provides the perception of being informed. Analysis of survey data reveals that attention to MTV and late-night programs is either unrelated to or negatively impacts campaign knowledge. Attention to talk shows is positively related to knowledge. While respondents perceive themselves as being informed by talk shows, for the less educated such attention is unrelated to campaign knowledge.

scholarly journals Cultivating Realities through Media: Coverage of Child Sexual Abuse in News and its Impact on Women of Lahore

sjesr ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 227-235
Author(s):  
Dr. Faiza Latif ◽  
Dr. Irem Sultana ◽  
Fareena Khan
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Child Sexual Abuse ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Positive Relationship ◽  
Television News ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Tv News ◽  
The Impact

The phenomenon of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) is witnessed across the globe. Like other countries, this issue is also prominently highlighted by media in Pakistan. However Pakistani media in general covering this brutal act, add sensationalism and drama to it with the objective of glorifying the whole incident. With this in view, this study tends to focus on the impact of TV news coverage of CSA and the attitude of women towards the issue. The objectives of the study are to find out the role of television news coverage of CSA incidents in creating awareness and its impact on the perception of the women regarding the area under study. The sample size of the study was 200 women (housewives) residing in Lahore. For studying the TV news coverage and its impact survey method was used for data collection. The theoretical framework of the study was Cultivation Theory. The results of the study revealed that the TV news coverage of CSA played its vital role in order to create awareness among women about this issue. The findings also indicated that there was a strong positive relationship between the two variables i.e., TV news coverage of CSA and awareness among women. The study determined that TV news coverage of CSA was a major medium of increased fear or insecurity to some extent among women since a weak positive relationship between the two variables was observed.

One Bias Fits All? Three Types of Media Bias and Their Effects on Party Preferences

2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (8) ◽  
pp. 1125-1148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jakob-Moritz Eberl ◽  
Hajo G. Boomgaarden ◽  
Markus Wagner
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Party Identification ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Media Bias ◽  
Parliamentary Election ◽  
Press Releases ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Political News ◽  
Party Press ◽  
Using Data

Bias in political news coverage may have a profound influence on voter opinions and preferences. However, the concept of media bias actually encompasses different sub-types: Visibility bias is the salience of political actors, tonality bias the evaluation of these actors, and agenda bias the extent to which parties address preferred issues in media coverage. The present study is the first to explore how each type of bias influences party preferences. Using data from the Austrian parliamentary election campaign of 2013, we combine an online panel survey ( n = 1,285) with measures of media bias from content analyses of party press releases ( n = 1,922) and media coverage in eight newspapers ( n = 6,970). We find substantial effects on party preferences for tonality bias and agenda bias, while visibility bias has no clear impact. Voters who are less politically sophisticated and lack a party identification are more susceptible to bias, and media bias can also reinforce existing partisan identities.

News Media, Candidates and Issues, and Public Opinion in the 1996 Presidential Campaign

1997 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 718-737 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Domke ◽  
David P. Fan ◽  
Michael Fibison ◽  
Dhavan V. Shah ◽  
Steven S. Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
News Media ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Bill Clinton ◽  
Presidential Campaign ◽  
Principal Candidates ◽  
Negative News ◽  
Bob Dole

There are two primary goals with this research. First, we examine whether news media were biased in coverage of the candidates or issues during the 1996 U.S. presidential campaign, as Republican Party candidate Bob Dole and others claimed. Second, we use an ideodynamic model of media effects to examine whether the quantity of positive and negative news coverage of the candidates was related to the public's preference of either Bill Clinton or Dole. The model posits that a candidate's level of support at any time is a function of the level of previous support (as measured in recent polls) plus changes in voters' preferences due to media coverage in the interim. This model allows exploration of whether news media coverage, alone, could predict the public's presidential preference in 1996. Using a computer content analysis program, 12,215 randomly sampled newspaper stories and television transcripts were examined from forty-three major media outlets from 10 March to 6 November 1996. Findings reveal both remarkably balanced media coverage of the two principal candidates, Clinton and Dole, and a powerful relationship between media coverage and public opinion.

Framing Irregular Immigration in Western Media

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (7) ◽  
pp. 771-782 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kjersti Thorbjørnsrud
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Political Climate ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Behavioral Scientist ◽  
The Media

The media coverage of irregular immigration has the power to influence public opinion, fuel the formation of popular movements, and mold the political climate related to immigration. Based on comparative and multimethod data sets, this special issue of American Behavioral Scientist contributes to a renewed understanding of the role and impact of the mass media on the current climate, opinions, and policies related to irregular immigration in three different Western countries. Analysis of source strategies and ethnographic methods is combined with large-scale quantitative content analysis of news and surveys measuring the reception of this news coverage by audiences in the United States, France, and Norway. The research design pursued in this special issue of American Behavioral Scientist identifies (a) the dominant voices, narratives, and arguments in the mainstream media coverage of irregular immigration; (b) how stakeholders work strategically to promote their messages in the media; and (c) what attitudes the public holds about the coverage of irregular immigration in the media, and how these media evaluations relate to their attitudes toward immigration. Together, the articles in this issue offer new and surprising insights into how a controversial and important issue is strategically framed, covered in the news, and understood among the audience.

Public Perceptions of the Media Coverage of Irregular Immigration

2015 ◽  
Vol 59 (7) ◽  
pp. 839-857 ◽  
Author(s):  
Audun Beyer ◽  
Jörg Matthes
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Survey Data ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public Perceptions ◽  
Border Control ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Media

Irregular immigration has become a globally important topic. While there have been some studies on public opinion toward irregular immigration, virtually no studies have examined how audiences evaluate the media coverage of this issue. There is also a lack of comparative research. The aims of this article are to provide survey data on public opinion toward irregular immigration in the United States, France, and Norway as well as a comparative analysis of public perceptions of the news coverage. Findings suggest that irregular immigration remains a highly salient issue in public opinion in all three countries. Furthermore, public opinion is generally critical and skeptic toward irregular immigration and immigrants, and differences between countries regarding the coverage of the issue in national mainstream media do not necessarily seem to be mirrored in public opinion. The survey data also suggest that citizens in all three countries tend to believe that the negative aspects of irregular immigration such as crimes or border control receive too little coverage whereas perspectives more positive to irregular immigration receive too much. Implications for further comparative research on public opinion and media coverage are discussed.

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