How the media do drugs: quality control and the reporting of drug issues in the UK print media

‘Selling by drugs’: Content analysis of the coverage of illicit drugs in different news media types and formats

“…Numerous studies have suggested that the media coverage of drug issues or crime can be subject to a shift if professionals in the social and drug fields successfully enter the contents of the media through becoming media sources themselves, providing PR contents or guidelines, and thus replacing the police and politicians in their claims regarding the drug field (Chermak, 1997;Coomber, Morris, & Dunn, 2000;Dillon, 1998;Gelders, 2004;Taylor, 2008;Teece & Makkai, 2000;Tones, 1996). Nevertheless, up-to-date research has not focused on how different media sources inflect the output of different media types (H2).…”

Methamphetamine Discourse: Media, Law, and Policy

“…A number of other theorists also brought our attention to news media representations of illegal drugs (Chiricos, 2006;Coomber, Morris, & Dunn, 2000;Gomez, 1997;Goode, 2008;Greaves, Varcoe, Poole, Morrow, Johnson, Pederson, & Irwin, 2002;Humphries, 1999;Manning, 2006;Reinarman & Duskin, 1999;Reinarman & Levine, 1997a, 1997bTaylor, 2008;Cohen & Young, 1981). Reinarman & Levine's (1997a, 1997b research, in particular, argued that U.S. news media offer narrow representations of drugs, drug use, selling, and criminal justice responses, and these media also attempt to shape public opinion about crime, especially drug crime.…”

Outside the outsiders: Media representations of drug use

“…The majority of news media therefore continue to be of a reactionary nature. The majority of news media also provides 'facts' that are unrepresentative and anecdotally evidenced and uncontested (see Coomber et al, 2000).…”