Expectations and elections: How television defines campaign news

Craig, Richard

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“…Among the most widely documented findings about polling in news is the prominence of horse-race polls in elections (e.g. Broh, 1980;Brookes, Lewis, & Wahl-Jorgensen, 2004;Rhee, 1996;Weimann, 1990), which contributes to the game schema (Patterson, 1980(Patterson, , 1994 and the centrality of 'expectations' in campaign news (Craig, 2000). More broadly, studies on polling in news can follow a constructivist perspective, which focuses on how images of and discourses surrounding public opinions are produced through polling.…”

Section: Poll Coverage and Journalistic Paradigmmentioning

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Poll Reporting and Journalistic Paradigm: A Study of Popularity Poll Coverage in Hong Kong Newspapers

Lee¹

2006

Asian Journal of Communication

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Opinion polling has become a common feature in news and public discourse in Hong Kong. This study examines how local newspapers cover popularity polls about the government and its leaders. It is hypothesized that newspapers adhering to different journalistic paradigms would cover such popularity polls differently in terms of the inclusion of methodological information, use of news sources, emphasis on negative versus positive results, treatment of polls conducted by different entities, and use of visual means of representations. A content analysis was conducted on four newspapers which represent the professionalism, populism, and propaganda paradigms, respectively. The results show that there are both similarities and differences in the poll coverage of the newspapers, with the differences mostly corresponding to the differences in journalistic paradigms. The results also point to a number of phenomena about news media in Hong Kong and poll reporting in general.

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Section: Poll Coverage and Journalistic Paradigmmentioning

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Poll Reporting and Journalistic Paradigm: A Study of Popularity Poll Coverage in Hong Kong Newspapers

Lee¹

2006

Asian Journal of Communication

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“…Research has also shown that the news media only cover minor-party candidates who started their careers in one of the major parties, take unique political positions that appeal to voters of both major parties, demonstrate enough support to affect the results of the election, raise substantial amounts of money, run serious campaigns, or have strong name recognition Kirch, 2015;(Pirch, 2004;Robinson & Sheehan, 1983). Reporters also cover campaigns as horse races, using survey results to determine which candidates will be covered and which ones will be ignored (Ansolabehere & Iyengar, 1994;Craig, 2000;Patterson, 1994). In an analysis of presidential campaigns between 1980 and 1996, for example, Zaller (1999) showed a correlation between a candidate's poll support and the media attention given to that candidate.…”

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Third-party candidates, newspaper editorials, and political debates

Kirch

2022

Newspaper Research Journal

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This study examines how newspapers in Virginia and the Washington Post covered the 2013 gubernatorial campaign of Libertarian Robert Sarvis in their editorials. In addition to comparing coverage volume and type, the study analyzes how the newspapers responded to his exclusion from the televised gubernatorial debates. The study found that newspaper editorials treated Sarvis like other third-party candidates, but some supported his inclusion in the political debates.

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“…However, as referred to earlier, Merritt (1995) argued that the use of this frame has negative implications precisely because it oversimplifies the situation. Portraying elections in terms of winning and losing is a disservice to readers because it could lead them to relate a candidate's campaigning ability to his or her competency, and hence conclude that the better campaigner would necessarily be the better president (Craig, 2000).…”

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Framing the Battle for the White House

Gan¹,

Teo

Detenber

2005

Gazette (Leiden, Netherlands)

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The unprecedented 2000 US Presidential Election provided the context for this study, which investigates patterns of news framing in two leading national newspapers. A comparative content analysis was conducted on all the election articles published in Singapore's The Straits Times and France's Le Monde between 7 October and 20 December 2000 (N = 484). Significant differences in dominant frames employed in the two newspapers were found, suggesting a link between journalistic ideology and framing. Although both papers used the horse race frame frequently, the authors observed in tandem with this frame an unexpectedly high use of the issue/ policy frame in Le Monde, which casts doubt on the assumption that the horse race frame is emphasized at the expense of issue coverage. The study also found that routine framing procedures were disrupted with the inability of the US to elect its president, and a new event-specific constitutional crisis frame emerged.

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Expectations and elections: How television defines campaign news

Cited by 8 publications

References 8 publications

Poll Reporting and Journalistic Paradigm: A Study of Popularity Poll Coverage in Hong Kong Newspapers

Poll Reporting and Journalistic Paradigm: A Study of Popularity Poll Coverage in Hong Kong Newspapers

Third-party candidates, newspaper editorials, and political debates

Framing the Battle for the White House

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