President Versus Congress: The Struggle for Public Attention

Gilbert, Robert E.

doi:10.1080/07343468909507926

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“…This practice of governing through a permanent campaign offers mixed results. While the modern mass media convey immense communication advantages to the White House, presidents have not always been as effective as they might have been in marketing their policies or themselves (Brody ; Cook ; Farnsworth and Lichter ; Gilbert ; Gregg ; Han ; Hertsgaard ; Kurtz ).…”

Section: Permanent Campaigns Going Public and Honeymoonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Extended Presidential Honeymoon? Coverage of Barack Obama in the New York Times during 2009 and 2010

Farnsworth

Lichter

2013

Politics & Policy

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Content analysis of front page New York Times stories during the first and second years of the Barack Obama presidency revealed news coverage that was far more positive in tone than the norm for recent U.S. presidents, particularly with respect to foreign policy coverage. While coverage of Obama was somewhat less positive during 2010 when compared to 2009, the Obama findings overall reveal a much longer honeymoon than seen in the past. Coverage of specific problematic policy areas, like offshore drilling issues in the wake of the BP oil spill, was particularly negative. Coverage of arms control matters was very positive in tone in 2010 for Obama, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009.

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Section: Permanent Campaigns Going Public and Honeymoonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

An Extended Presidential Honeymoon? Coverage of Barack Obama in the New York Times during 2009 and 2010

Farnsworth

Lichter

2013

Politics & Policy

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“…In the public sphere, however, the president has an inherent advantage. Presidents are not only chief executives but heads of state and their symbolic prerogatives can expectedly dominate day-to-day news coverage and are at the centre of public spotlight (Gilbert 1989;Eshbaugh-Soha 2013;Marshall 2008). This can endow the presidency with immediate advantages in any political confrontation.…”

Section: President-driven Theory Of News Framingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This can endow the presidency with immediate advantages in any political confrontation. Yet this also exposes the office to media sensationalism and degrades the president into a caricature instead of a political leader (Gilbert 1989;O'Donnell 1994). Without a strong support base, the president is easily blamed for every scandal or crisis.…”

Section: President-driven Theory Of News Framingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does public approval shape news? Competing legitimacies and news headlines in the Philippines from Ramos to Aquino III

Mendoza¹,

Panao²

2021

IJAPS

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Can a president’s high public approval, vis-à-vis competing coordinate institutions, shape press coverage of political events? Testing theories of executive scandals, this paper argues that in the context of Philippine presidential democracy, presidential satisfaction shapes the production of political events more than the presence of other policy issues competing for broadsheet space. Using logistic regression models to analyse the news headlines appearing in two major broadsheets in the Philippines from 1992 to 2016, the study finds that presidents whose approval ratings are low compared to Congress are an easy target for the opposition and a much more attractive topic for sensational news by the press. With a much smaller circle of supporters for the president, there is also less risk for the opposition and the press collaborating or colluding in the production of political events. The press, in contrast, tends to be conservative in reporting political events when the public mood is generally supportive of the Philippine chief executive.

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“…While television and the Internet convey immense communication advantages to the White House, presidents have not always been as effective as they might have been in marketing their policies or themselves (Brody 1991;Cook 2002;Gilbert 1989; Gregg 2004;Han 2001;Kurtz 1998). Although presidents may not always convince Congress, the citizenry, or the governments of other nations to view a White House policy proposal as they do, chief executives can do far more to shape public discourse than can any other political actor (Kernell 2007;Tulis 1987).…”

Section: The Permanent Campaign and "Going Public"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Iraq, 9/11, and the Mediated Presidency of George W. Bush

Farnsworth¹,

Lichter²

2009

ARP

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George W. Bush’s presidency has been marked by aggressive media management efforts that have generated mixed success. This article examines how Bush and his White House media team sought to manage the media largely by framing the president primarily as a wartime commander-in-chief. This article discusses the administration’s media strategies designed to secure more positive news coverage and employs a content analysis of network news coverage of Bush during key periods of his presidency to examine their effectiveness. The findings demonstrate that the White House enjoyed relatively positive news coverage in the months after September 11, 2001 and during the combat phase of the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of Iraq. At many other times during his presidency, though, the Bush tendency to over-promise led to highly critical news coverage. As the distance from 9/11 increased, the tone of coverage turned increasingly negative.

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President Versus Congress: The Struggle for Public Attention

Cited by 5 publications

References 5 publications

An Extended Presidential Honeymoon? Coverage of Barack Obama in the New York Times during 2009 and 2010

An Extended Presidential Honeymoon? Coverage of Barack Obama in the New York Times during 2009 and 2010

Does public approval shape news? Competing legitimacies and news headlines in the Philippines from Ramos to Aquino III

Iraq, 9/11, and the Mediated Presidency of George W. Bush

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