Framing Bias: Media in the Distribution of Power

Entman, Robert M.

doi:10.1111/j.1460-2466.2006.00336.x

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“…These packages of story encompass arguments, information, symbols, metaphors, and images (Gamson & Modigliani, 1987). In detail, utilizing framing strategies, mass media often pursues to dominate certain controversial issues into topics that are more easily intelligible and persuadable for the audience and has relevantly significant power to influence how audience understand, interpret, and react to the issues (Entman, 2007;Lee, Kim, & Love, 2014;Tewksbury & Scheufele, 2009;De Vreese, 2005). For example, if any topic is frequently and distinctly mentioned and covered in mass media, the audience possibly may understand the issues as more important way (Golan & Wanta, 2001).…”

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Abstract:The study examined how newspaper articles have framed the 17th Incheon Asian Games 2014, in regard to the different issues covered, sources cited, positive and/or negative externalities frames, and the relationship between issues and sources. A total of 625 Korean nationwide and local newspaper articles covering the Asian Games during the 9-year period between April 7, 2005 and September 18, 2014 was analyzed in terms of three aspects of framing: (1) the types of issues highlighted, (2) the sources of information cited, and (3) the ways in which either possibilities of positive or negative externalities depiction were used. The results of the current study reveal that "political issues" (e.g., administrative and/or political conflict among central government, host city, and local residents, participation of North Korea national team) except "factual information of the event" (e.g., schedules, results, athlete performance, history) were the most commonly highlighted, "administrators" who are the government agencies preparing the Asian Games were the most frequently cited sources of information and the frame of "negative externalities" was more employed than the frame of "positive externalities" in newspapers of the Asian Games. This study regarding media coverage of the mega sporting event identifies how mass media agencies influence their target audience using framing theory and especially provide extensive analysis of media coverage of the Asian Games to date, which could serve as a groundwork for further studies of media framing theory.

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“…It should be noted however that one of the most pressing issues in framing research is the lack of conceptual clarity and operational definitions. But one can draw from Entman who suggests that to frame is to "select some aspects of a perceived reality and make them more salient in a communicating context [7].…”

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The Coverage of Crises News in the Malaysian and Nigerian Newspapers between 2007 and 2009

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Ishak²

2015

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Abstract-The reporting of crisis anywhere in the world has certain elements in common with the reporting of other events. In this paper, it is used as a definer for political, economic, health and environmental crises. Crisis reporting could be defined as the reporting of information about the state of affairs in which a decisive change for the worse is about to, or has occurred. Newspapers have a unique and exceptionally important role to play in covering national crises. Accurate and appropriate information about a crisis is an expectation that is required if the government wants to remove fears from the public. This is because modern democracy depends on a vibrant news media to keep the public informed. Newspaper has had a long history of information dissemination, particularly in its in-depth reporting of events. This task becomes more demanding in this age of the internet, which has brought with it so much competition for the printed copy. This is a comparative study on how Malaysian and Nigerian newspapers reported some of the crises the two countries experienced between 2007 and 2009. Through content analysis, the study compared the coverage of crises by newspapers in the two countries. This is aimed at determining how newspapers in the two countries differed in their reporting. The research relied on the framing theory. One of the findings is that Nigerian newspapers have significantly reported more political, economic and environmental crises while Malaysian newspapers have reported more health crisis.

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“…Second-level agenda-setting theory suggests that changes in media emphasis on certain attributes of an issue relative to other attributes affect the relative importance of that issue as perceived by the public (Ghanem, 1996;Ghanem, 1997;Hester & Gibson, 2003). In this regard, secondlevel agenda-setting is similar, to varying degrees from author to author, to frame analysis and framing effects (McCombs & Ghanem, 2001;Coleman & Banning, 2006;Aday, 2006;Entman, 2007;Weaver, 2007), in that both frame analysis and second-level agenda-setting recognize that the attributes of an jpc.mcmaster.ca issue affect public cognition.…”

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The H1N1 crisis: Roles played by government communicators, the public and the media

Laing¹

2011

Journal of Professional Communication

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A B S T R A C TThe paper examines the communications that occurred between the news media, the general public and the government during the 2009 outbreak of the H1N1 influenza virus from a crisis communications perspective, focusing on events in Ontario, Canada. In crisis communications theory and practice, the analysis borrows from secondlevel agenda-setting literature, which suggests that an issue's attributes can affect the perceived level of salience among both the media and the public. The analysis combined a review of government crisis communications planning, a content analysis of radio, television and print news coverage of H1N1, and opinion polling and other data indicating the public's level of awareness and concern over H1N1. ©Journal of Professional Communication, all rights reserved."What we've got here is (a) failure to communicate."From the 1967 film Cool Hand Luke hen a health care crisis occurs, as it did in 2009 with the outbreak of the H1N1 or "swine flu" virus, it puts immediate and enormous pressure on the professional communicator. A successful public health campaign involves many important logistical functions such as coordinating health care workers and resources to vaccinate the public. Equally as important is the communications function. The communications function, defined within the narrow context of the challenge of addressing a public health care crisis, is to inform the public and health care practitioners and stakeholders on ways of mitigating the crisis, by reassuring and educating the public.The verdicts on how well Canadian public health officials handled the H1N1 crisis are in, and few of them were kind. By suggesting that the government's W

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Framing Bias: Media in the Distribution of Power

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