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Prevailing Impressions in Science and Medical NewsA Content Analysis of the Los Angeles Times and The Washington PostUniversity of Missouri
Beijing Review
Webster University In a content analysis, the authors assess the prevailing impressions toward social actors in the coverage of science and biomedical news in the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post during biennial periods from 1989 to 1995. The social actors and outcome variables studied were favorability toward science and medical professionals, the health care delivery system, science and medicine as social institutions, industry, government, and public interest groups. The study found that prevailing impressions toward industry, government, the health care delivery system, science and medical professionals, science and medicine as social institutions, and public interest groups were within a middle or ascribed equivocal range for both newspapers during all the time periods surveyed. The findings challenge some qualitative, case-study-based scholarship that suggests prevailing impressions are skewed in highly favorable or unfavorable directions toward social actors in science reporting.
Science Communication, Vol. 22, No. 1,
27-45 (2000) This article has been cited by other articles:
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