Presidential Agenda-Setting of Traditional and Nontraditional News Media

Eshbaugh-Soha, Matthew

doi:10.1080/10584609.2014.958261

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“…Even this research on presidential campaigns tends to show that newer media follow traditional media in election coverage (e.g., Lawrence ). Other research, which does not consider tone, shows that, although presidential leadership of the news agenda does not vary by different types of media, cable news programs cover the president much more extensively than other news sources (Eshbaugh‐Soha ). The paucity of research on presidential leadership of cable news is one motivation for this article.…”

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“…It is yet unclear, however, whether these features of traditional news coverage extend to cable news and how this might affect presidential leadership of cable news. Although some have questioned whether cable news (and FNC, specifically) adheres to this norm of professional news coverage (Horwitz ), it seems just as likely that the president would be newsworthy on cable news channels as on traditional news and perhaps be more likely to be covered given the politically interested nature of cable news audiences (Eshbaugh‐Soha ). It also means that whereas traditional news media that appeal to a large and heterogeneous audience may be unlikely to slant their news coverage, partisan cable news, which have more ideologically focused audiences, will be more likely to slant their coverage in terms of both the amount and tone of news coverage.…”

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Presidential Leadership of Partisan News

Eshbaugh-Soha¹

2017

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The purpose of this article is to examine the partisan slant of cable news coverage of the unemployment rate and the impact presidential speeches have on this coverage. I examine coverage of the monthly release of the unemployment rate from September 2005 through April 2015 for programs on all three major cable networks: The Situation Room, Special Report, and Hardball. Although the partisan leaning of these sources may affect coverage, presidents may be able to influence unemployment news coverage if the news reports the president's speeches. Using Lexicoder to content analyze the amount and tone of coverage, the findings reveal evidence of both partisan slant and presidential leadership of news coverage through speeches.

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Presidential Leadership of Partisan News

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2017

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“…Miles (2014) contends that presidential speeches can affect the amount of news coverage across sources by diverting media attention away from issues unrelated to the president’s priorities. Others show that presidential leadership of the news agenda is fairly consistent across online, cable, and traditional news sources, even though presidents are more much likely to be featured on cable news programs (Eshbaugh-Soha 2016). Research on presidential leadership of the tone of new media is virtually absent from the literature.…”

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“…In fact, there appear to be conflicting reasons for presidential leadership of online news. On one hand, presidents appear able to influence the news agenda across different types of media, including online news sources (Eshbaugh-Soha 2016). Moreover, online news sources have ample space to fill and will often use that space to report on the president, whose words and actions are readily available to all news sources.…”

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Presidential Leadership, the News Media, and Income Inequality

Eshbaugh-Soha

McGauvran

2017

Political Research Quarterly

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Most research on media in the post-broadcast age of politics focuses on how media affect the public, not on the interinstitutional relationships between the presidency and news media. This study tackles this important topic by studying news coverage of and presidential attention to the issue of income inequality. We use web scraping and text analysis software to build a dataset of weekly news coverage from 1999 through 2013, across traditional and nontraditional media, including newspapers, broadcast and cable television transcripts, and online news websites. The data show that presidential attention to income inequality influences the income inequality news agenda across all sources except network television and affects the tone of newspaper coverage. Presidential influence of tone is especially pronounced on income inequality issues that have an international focus. The implications of this paper are significant not only for understanding how media and the presidency interact in the post-broadcast age but also for the prospects for federal policies that may combat income inequality.

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“…Now some 30 years since the Reagan era, the study of Reagan's communication and leadership style has much to offer our current understanding of the normative behaviour of presidents and candidates operating under conditions of constant media scrutiny. Whereas Reagan was adept at connecting with Americans through television, contemporary office holders (and presidential hopefuls) must be able to compete with the flood of media choices now available across numerous platforms(Eshbaugh-Soha, 2016;Prior, 2013) and the fast pace of the issue-attention cycle.…”

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Laughter and effective presidential leadership: A case study of Ronald Reagan as the ‘great communicator'

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Dye³

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President Ronald Reagan’s expert use of media and his charismatic connection with viewers earned him the moniker “the great communicator”. This study examines one aspect of his charisma, the influence of elicited laughter, during a much-discussed and highly critical 5-minute news story by CBS reporter Leslie Stahl during the 1984 US presidential election. Production choices regarding observable audience responses (OAR) on viewer perceptions of politicians have not been extensively studied. The focus of the present study is to explore the effects of audience laughter on perceived leadership traits. Two experiments examining the mediating effects of audience laughter on perceptions of presidential leadership are reported. The first shows that perceptions of Reagan’s perceived warmth significantly diminish when strong laughter is removed from the presentation, whereas perceptions of competence remain unaffected. The second study proposes a between-subjects experiment (preregistered report) to confirm and extend the findings of the first study by considering trait charisma and the influence of specific humorous comments that are accompanied by laughter.

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Presidential Agenda-Setting of Traditional and Nontraditional News Media

Cited by 18 publications

References 40 publications

Presidential Leadership of Partisan News

Presidential Leadership of Partisan News

Presidential Leadership, the News Media, and Income Inequality

Laughter and effective presidential leadership: A case study of Ronald Reagan as the ‘great communicator'

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