scholarly journals Moral Foundations of U.S. Political News Organizations

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Edward Padfield ◽  
Erin Michelle Buchanan
Keyword(s):  
News Coverage ◽  
Moral Foundations ◽  
Supreme Court Justice ◽  
Political News ◽  
News Sources ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
The Media ◽  
Moral Dimensions ◽  
Political Divide

The media ecosystem has grown, and political opinions have diverged such that there are competing conceptions of objective truth. Commentators often point to political biases in news coverage as a catalyst for this political divide. The Moral Foundations Dictionary (MFD) facilitates identification of ideological leanings in text through frequency of the occurrence of certain words. Through web scraping, the researchers extracted articles from popular news sources' websites, calculated MFD word frequencies, and identified words' respective valences. This process attempts to uncover news outlets' positive or negative endorsements of certain moral dimensions concomitant with a particular ideology. In Experiment 1, the researchers gathered political articles from four sources. We were unable to reveal significant differences in moral or political endorsements, but we solidified the method to be employed in further research. In Experiment 2, the researchers expanded their number of sources to 10 and analyzed articles that pertain to two specific topics: the 2018 confirmation hearings of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh and the partial U.S. Government Shutdown of 2018-2019. Once again, no significant differences in moral or political endorsements were found.

scholarly journals Pemetaan Berita Online tentang Imunisasi Measles Rubella Tahun 2018 di Indonesia

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-36
Author(s):  
Febri Sri Lestari ◽  
Fedri Ruluwedrata Rinawan ◽  
Irvan Afriandi ◽  
Siti Karlinah ◽  
Insi Farisa Arya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
News Coverage ◽  
Immunization Coverage ◽  
Online News ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Strong Argument ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Health Related ◽  
The Media ◽  
Policies And Programs ◽  
Immunization Campaign

Abstract The mass media plays a significant role in delivering health-related information to the wider society, so that it can be involved in health programs, including the Measles Rubella (MR) Immunization Campaign. The purpose of this program is to reduce the incidence of measles and rubella which has increased in the last five years in Indonesia. MR immunization coverage target must reach at least 95% in order to form group immunity to break the chain of transmission. However, as of the end of September 2018, the coverage of granting MR immunization nationally only reach 52,71%. This was published by online media throughout different regions in Indonesia with negative, neutral, or positive tendencies. Problems occur when exposure to the media with a negative perspective on vaccine impacts immunization coverage. Based on this, the research aims to map the trend of reporting on MR Immunization based on regions in Indonesia. The method used is content analysis. The object of this study is 410 online news about MR Immunization that was published during the second phase of MR Immunization Campaign, from August 1st until September 30th 2018 in Indonesia. The results of this research show that news coverage is dominated by national news, which is more representative of positive messages. Meanwhile, a province with the most news sources is Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD), which negative tendencies. NAD has the majority of moslem communities who are very sensitive on the sharia law issue. Therefore, unclear certification of vaccine halal became a strong argument to refuse and postpone the MR immunization, and based on the research protocol, this categorized as negative news. Therefore, the health promoters can develop health communication strategies to work more effectively with the media, especially in the regions, in informing health policies and programs, so that news that is published does not upset the public. Abstrak Media massa berperan dalam menyampaikan informasi kesehatan kepada masyarakat luas sehingga dapat dilibatkan dalam program kesehatan, termasuk Kampanye Imunisasi Measles Rubella (MR). Tujuan program ini adalah untuk menurunkan kejadian penyakit campak dan rubela yang meningkat dalam lima tahun terakhir di Indonesia. Target cakupan Imunisasi MR harus mencapai minimal 95% agar terbentuk kekebalan kelompok untuk memutuskan mata rantai penularan. Namun, sampai dengan akhir September 2018, cakupan pemberian Imunisasi MR secara nasional baru mencapai 52,71%. Hal ini dipublikasikan oleh media online dengan kecenderungan negatif, netral, atau positif yang diberitakan dari berbagai wilayah di Indonesia. Permasalahan terjadi ketika paparan media dengan perspektif negatif pada vaksin berdampak pada cakupan imunisasi. Berdasarkan hal tersebut, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk memetakan kecenderungan pemberitaan tentang Imunisasi MR berdasarkan wilayah di Indonesia. Metode yang digunakan adalah analisis isi. Objek penelitian ini adalah 410 berita online tentang imunisasi MR yang dipublikasikan selama Kampanye Imunisasi MR fase II, 1 Agustus sampai dengan 30 September 2018 di Indonesia. Hasil penelitian menggambarkan bahwa pemberitaan lebih didominasi berita berskala nasional, yang lebih menggambarkan pesan yang bersifat positif. Sementara itu, wilayah provinsi yang menjadi sumber berita terbanyak adalah Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam (NAD) dengan pemberitaan berkecenderungan negatif. NAD memiliki mayoritas masyarakat muslim yang peka terhadap permasalahan syariah. Oleh karena itu, ketidakjelasan sertifikasi halal vaksin menjadi alasan untuk penolakan dan penundaan program Imunisasi MR, yang dalam protokol penelitian ini dikategorikan berita negatif. Dengan demikian, promotor kesehatan dapat menyusun strategi komunikasi kesehatan agar bekerja lebih efektif dengan media, terutama di daerah, dalam menginformasikan kebijakan dan program kesehatan sehingga berita yang dipublikasikan tidak membuat resah masyarakat.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 152-162
Author(s):  
Angèle Christin
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Moral Panic ◽  
The United States ◽  
Fake News ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
White House ◽  
News Websites ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
The Media

This chapter explores the implications of web analytics for further studies of digital metrics beyond the case of journalism. At a time when nearly every domain is affected by analytics and algorithms, the chapter also provides an overview of what kinds of changes are to be expected and what should not be taken for granted whenever metrics take over. It describes how online media became a different place following the election of Donald Trump as the forty-fifth president of the United States in which news organizations and digital platforms entered into a political and economic maelstrom. It investigates the moral panic surrounding the uncovering of “content farms” and the stream of tweets from the White House labelling mainstream news organizations as “fake news” that caused the media ecosystem to become the center of new controversies about the future of information and democracy. The chapter also shows how news websites can bear some responsibility for problematic developments in journalism.

Talking About School Bullying: News Framing of Who Is Responsible for Causing and Fixing the Problem

2016 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 725-746 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sei-Hill Kim ◽  
Matthew W. Telleen
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
School Bullying ◽  
Victim Blaming ◽  
Frame Building ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Political Orientations ◽  
The Media ◽  
Internal And External Factors ◽  
Social Level

Our content analysis examines how American news media have framed the question of who is responsible for causing and solving the school bullying problem. We identified presence of considerable victim blaming in news coverage. Among potential causes examined, victims and their families were mentioned most often as being responsible. When talking about how to solve the problem, the media were focusing heavily on schools and teachers, while bullies and their families—the direct source of the problem—were mentioned least often. We also found that liberal newspapers were focusing more than conservative papers on social-level responsibilities, while conservative papers were more likely than liberal papers to attribute responsibility to individuals, suggesting that the political orientations of news organizations can affect which level of responsibility will be highlighted. Drawing upon the notion of frame building, we discuss in detail how several internal and external factors of news organizations can affect their selective uses of frames.

What Determine Indonesian Commercial News TV Channels' Political News Production and Publication in the Post-Soeharto Regime

2020 ◽  
pp. 134-160
Author(s):  
Nyarwi Ahmad
Keyword(s):  
Online Survey ◽  
News Production ◽  
Political News ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
News Sources ◽  
Government Ideology ◽  
Production Models ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Systemic Factors ◽  
The Media

This work focuses on structural-systemic factors that have been determining Indonesian commercial news TV Channels' political news production and publication in the Post-Soeharto Regime. A critical political economy perspective of the media and the media behaviours, performance, and content production models were adopted. Articles published in qualified journals, theses and reports released by Indonesian mainstream media related with such issue and in-depth interview derived from five senior editors/journalists of Indonesian commercial news TV channels and interview data collected from Indonesian journalists through online survey were extracted using the qualitative content and thematic analyses. The findings indicate that the following factors systematically determined political news production and publications organized by such private news TV channels. These factors include cartelised political system, party cartelisation, oligarchic media ownership, Pancasila (the Five Principles) as a unitary Indonesian state and government ideology, types and personal characters of the news sources, and religious violence groups.

scholarly journals Porous Chambers, Echoes of Valence and Stereotypes

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate M. Turetsky ◽  
Travis A. Riddle
Keyword(s):  
News Media ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Emotional Valence ◽  
Selective Exposure ◽  
Online News ◽  
News Sources ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
Echo Chambers ◽  
Social Media Platforms ◽  
High Connectivity

Selective exposure to one-sided news coverage, especially of controversial geopolitical events, may contribute to growing social polarization. Existing research on “echo chambers”—fragmented information environments that amplify homogeneous perspectives—focuses on the degree to which individuals and social media platforms shape informational segregation. Here, we explore whether news organizations directly contribute to echo chambers through the hyperlinks they embed in online articles. Using network and text analysis, we examined coverage of the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO, and found that online news media exhibited weak community structure and high connectivity across news outlets. However, analyses also indicated that media sources were more likely to link to coverage that was similar to their own in terms of emotional valence and stereotype-relevant aspects of the events. While hyperlinking to diverse news sources may ameliorate fragmented information environments, selectively linking to similar coverage may contribute to growing polarization.

scholarly journals The Rhetoric of “Whataboutism” in American Journalism and Political Identity

Res Rhetorica ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Dykstra
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Political Identity ◽  
Rhetorical Device ◽  
Political News ◽  
Political Group ◽  
American Journalism ◽  
Media Ecosystem ◽  
The Media ◽  
Election Results ◽  
The Public Sphere

This paper is focused on the contextual use of the term “whataboutism” in contemporary American politics, specifically in the language of political news commentary. After tracking the word’s emergence in political discourse, some analysis of the term’s recent use in examples of commentary articles is done to explore what the term means as a rhetorical device that structures political conversations in the media and shapes political identities in the public sphere. Overall, “whataboutism” is found to be part of an asymmetrical media ecosystem polarizing the American electorate, and one of the rhetorical tools systematically used in maintaining political group divisions. How “whataboutism” is deployed in  political discourse and then grappled with or normalized by journalists is emblematic of trends in American journalistic discourse after the election results of 2016, and the term’s newfound prevalence is illustrative of the degree to which American identities have become politically tribalized.

Intermedia and interlingual agenda setting: News coverage of the Ebola virus on Twitter (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ahmed Al-Rawi ◽  
Jacob Groshek
Keyword(s):  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
English Language ◽  
Ebola Virus ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
News Stories ◽  
Intermedia Agenda Setting ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
The Media

UNSTRUCTURED The 2014 Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) outbreak captured substantial media attention around the world. This paper investigates the media coverage of Ebola in five pairs of English and Arabic international television media outlets (BBC, CNN, SkyNews, RT, and France24) by examining the headlines of 298,559 news stories that those respective organizations posted on their official Twitter accounts. Over the course of approximately one year’s worth of coverage on these networks, Ebola was mentioned in the headlines of 4,138 stories, which constitutes 1.38% of the total news coverage of all media outlets. Building on the theory of intermedia agenda setting that outlines the ways in which major news organization influence the agendas of other news outlets, the findings reported here indicate strong, time-ordered patterns where English language coverage consistently precedes and helps to significantly explain the distribution of Arabic media coverage. In addition to providing evidence of intermedia agenda setting from a comparative perspective in this context, this paper expands on this theory and suggests that it can be applied to multilingual outlets from the same news organizations.

scholarly journals Pakistan's General Elections of 2018: Representation of Economic Issues and Orientation of Political News Coverage in The Elite Newspapers of Pakistan

2019 ◽  
Vol IV (I) ◽  
pp. 51-61
Author(s):  
Muhammad Qasim Nizamani ◽  
Farheen Qasim Nizamani ◽  
Sikandar Hussain Soomro
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Political News ◽  
Content Analysis Method ◽  
Eminent Scholar ◽  
General Elections ◽  
The Media ◽  
Elite Newspapers

In a democratic society, mass media and political system have a strong bond with each other. Big media powerhouses attempt to develop linkages with political parties for economic benefits. These parties' linkages with media houses may have affected news items' representation of issues from both positive and negative reporting angles. An eminent scholar of agenda-setting through McCombs et al. (1997), pointed out that media has great power to set the agenda of public and political parties also actively engages the media houses to advance their elections. This study attempts to learn the news representation of issues during the General Elections (GE) of 2018 in Pakistan. This present study employed a content analysis method to investigate news issues coverage and representation in 10 mainstream newspapers based on readership size. The findings suggest that news items representation of issues among newspapers are highly polarized on the basis of sympathize towards their favourite political parties.

Game versus Substance in Political News

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E. Patterson
Keyword(s):  
Media Effects ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Congressional Elections ◽  
Election Campaigns ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Political News ◽  
Competitive Game ◽  
The Media ◽  
Political Game

This chapter examines the game schema in news coverage. It argues that substance is often subordinated to the competitive game, particularly during election campaigns but also in governing situations. Moreover, because journalists tend to see politics as a political game, their reporting of policy leadership and problems is often framed in game-like terms The chapter discusses the game schema in theoretical perspective and looks at research on the game schema in US presidential and congressional elections and other contexts. The research on the media effects of game schema is reviewed. The chapter closes by offering future directions for research on the game schema.

A study of intermedia and interorganizational agenda-setting in the news coverage of the Ebola virus on Twitter

2021 ◽  
Vol 00 (00) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Ahmed Al-Rawi ◽  
Jacob Groshek
Keyword(s):  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Media Coverage ◽  
English Language ◽  
Ebola Virus ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
News Coverage ◽  
Time Series Regression ◽  
Intermedia Agenda Setting ◽  
News Organizations ◽  
The Media

The Ebola virus is a rare but often severe and fatal illness in humans. It spreads from animals to humans and then transgresses through human-to-human transmission. The 2014 Ebola virus disease outbreak captured substantial media attention around the world, which is the cornerstone of our study since it can inform us about the current news coverage on the COVID-19 pandemic. This article investigates the media coverage of Ebola in five pairs of English and Arabic international television media outlets (BBC, CNN, SkyNews, RT and France24) by examining the headlines of 298,559 news stories that the respective organizations posted on their official Twitter accounts. Methodologically, we extracted headlines from news outlets that addressed the news on the Ebola virus in two languages: English and Arabic. The media outlets include the following: CNN (English and Arabic), BBC (English and Arabic), SkyNews (English and Arabic), RT (formerly known as Russia Today) (English and Arabic) and France24 (English and Arabic) from late 2013 to early 2015 during which time the Ebola epidemic intensified. We then used descriptive statistics to understand the volume of news coverage and calculate the frequencies, percentages, mean, median and standard deviations for these channels. Further, we continued to model time series regression between the five pairs of news outlets using Granger causality tests. The findings show that over the course of approximately one year’s worth of coverage on these networks, Ebola was mentioned in the headlines of 4138 stories, which constitutes 1.38 per cent of the total news coverage of all media outlets. Building on the theory of intermedia agenda-setting that outlines the ways in which major news organizations influence the agendas of other news outlets, the findings reported here indicate strong, time-ordered patterns where English-language coverage consistently precedes and helps to significantly explain the distribution of Arabic media coverage. In addition to providing evidence of intermedia agenda-setting from a comparative perspective in this context, this article expands on this theory and suggests that it can be applied to multilingual outlets from the same news organizations.

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