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Journalists, Cognition, and the Presentation of an Epidemiologic Study

CRAIG W. TRUMBO

Cornell University

SHARON DUNWOODY

University of Wisconsin-Madison

ROBERT J. GRIFFIN

Marquette University

Cognitive processes can inform an understanding of newswork. In this case study, the authors examine a growing literature relating cognitive theories to newsmaking and then apply some of the principles in that literature to media coverage of EPA-mandated reformulated gasoline in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In an analysis of how local Milwaukee television news presented an epidemiologic study answering health complaints associated with the gasoline additive, the authors find a number of cognitive processes at work, especially those involving bias and error. Finally, the authors consider implications of such processes for newsmaking.

Science Communication, Vol. 19, No. 3, 238-265 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/1075547098019003005
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