Climate change is a major threat to public health worldwide. Conversely, well-designed action to mitigate climate change offers numerous opportunities to improve health and equity. Despite this, comprehensive climate action has not been forthcoming within New Zealand. The media plays an important role in shaping public opinion and support for policy change. Previous literature has suggested that certain types of framing may be more effective than others at encouraging support for climate action and policy. This includes positive, personally relevant framing, as well as key journalistic tools which appear counter-intuitive, such as an increase in human interest stories and ‘sensationalist’ framing. We undertook a qualitative thematic analysis of climate change and health media coverage in two online New Zealand news outlets to understand how the issue was framed, and how it may be framed more effectively to encourage climate action. We compared the framing used by journalists in mainstream media outlet the New Zealand Herald Online (NZHO) with that of contributors to independent news repository site Scoop. Content in both outlets emphasized the threat unchecked climate change poses to health, which overshadowed the positive health opportunities of climate action. The NZHO was more prone to negative framing, and more likely to favour stories which could be sensationalized and were international in scope. We considered the possible effectiveness of the framing we found for attracting greater media attention and encouraging support for climate action and policy.
2007 after completing an M.A.Abstract: Following the 2005 election, a number of minor parties claimed that their poor performance on election night was due in part to the coverage their campaigns had received in the media. This article examines the validity of these claims through an analysis of the extent and type of coverage received by ACT, United Future, New Zealand First and the Greens in the four metropolitan newspapers. The article concludes that newspapers follow a particular media logic when covering election campaigns. Such a logic does not necessarily disadvantage small parties. Minor parties can attract considerable media attention where they -or their leaders in particular -are
This paper investigates the impact of the Employment Contracts Act on trade union membership. Two separate surveys of labour market participants lvere conducted in Dunedin on the eve of the legislation and one year later. The findings demonstrated that for these samples, trade union membership in aggregate was not based on compulsion before the legislation and remained at a similar level a year later. Democracy was not restored to the workplace it was already apparent there. This implies that changes in the industrial relations system had already taken place prior to the legislation and it is suggested that these findings are explicable if the effect of the exigencies of the recession on both parries is taken account of In the ensuing discussion, reasons for the persistence of the same level of union membership after the legislation were considered. It was demonstrated that most members li'anted the union to act as their bargaining agent and felt few pressures regarding their choice of employment contract. In other words, employers did not utilise the provisions of the Act to weaken union membership, at least in the short term.
The paper examines the coverage of election campaigns by the Otago Daily Times for the period . Four aspects of campaign coverage are addressed: the degree of partisanship of editorials, and party balance in news stories and their placement; the presidentialisation of coverage; the relative shares of 'game' and substance stories; and the extent to which coverage is national rather than local in focus. The paper finds clear evidence of a decline in both partisanship of editorials since the 1970s and balanced party coverage in other news stories across the whole period. There has been an increase in stories devoted to party leaders and the horse-race and hoopla aspects of the campaign. There has also been an increase in nationally focused stories. However, there remains substantial coverage of parties and their policies, and during the 1990s there was evidence of an increase in local and regionally focused stories. Overall, readers of the Otago Daily Times have significant opportunity to become 'informed' voters.Election campaigns are critical periods in the lives of democracies. They select decision makers, shape policy, distribute power, and provide venues for debate and socially approved expressions of conflict about factional grievances and issues, national problems and directions, and international agandas and activities.2
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