The Mediating Role of the News in the BP Oil Spill Crisis 2010

Abstract

The paper explains antecedents and consequences of news during the BP oil spill crisis by analyzing newspaper and internet coverage as well as financial indicators.The study establishes the roles of routines in financial journalism and of BP's public relations efforts in building the U.S. media agenda. The U.S. media agenda in turn bears a classic agenda-setting effect on public awareness, an intermedia agendasetting effect on foreign media, and a stakeholder agenda-setting effect on financial markets. A second-level attribute agenda-setting post-hoc study reveals that these first-order agenda setting effects depend on the resonance of specific problems and solutions with specific interests and a specific frame of mind. Financial stakeholders, for example, reacted negatively to news about judicial accountability, but positively to press releases about BP's skills in implementing solutions. The findings contradict research which states that the news in classic media merely mirrors share prices.

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“…Las portadas niegan la condición de desigualdad ambiental permanente de Quintero, en el que sitúa el derrame de petróleo. El comportamiento del diario en las portadas sugiere el estudio de la estrategia y gestión comunicacional de la empresa estatal sobre la crisis ambiental, la que al parecer opta por la retórica de la reparación de imagen (Harlow et al, 2011) y la influencia de las relaciones públicas corporativas en la prensa (Kleinnijenhuis et al, 2013).…”

“…Estudios enfocados en la comunicación ambiental (gestión comunicacional de la crisis, repercusión institucional, efectos propagandísticos, educación ambiental), permitieron establecer el contraste entre el tratamiento de la prensa local ante la nacional, el papel de la asociación gremial de los periodistas gallegos en la cobertura, el vínculo informativo entre la prensa local y la del resto de los países afectados por la catástrofe (Francia y Portugal), el papel de las TIC como fuente de información y elemento catalizador en la constitución del movimiento social ambientalista local, Colectivo Nunca Mais (Agraso, Eirexas & Jiménez, 2003;Pérez, 2006;Odriozola, 2010;Fernández Souto, 2012). El caso de British Petroleum también motivó estudios de agenda y medios impresos y electrónicos (Boydstun, Moody & Thomas, 2010;García, 2011;Schultz, Kleinnijenhuis, Oegema, Utz & Van Atteveldt, 2012), pero el énfasis estuvo en la discusión y comprensión del modelo comunicacional de tratamiento de crisis y las relaciones entre la prensa y el aparato de relaciones públicas corporativas y gubernamentales (Harlow, Brantley & Harlow, 2011;Paule, 2010;Muralidharan, Dillistone & Shin, 2011;Liu, Austin & Jin, 2011;Kleinnijenhuis, Schultz, Utz & Oegema., 2013;y Valvi & Fragkos, 2013).…”

Public relations, media coverage, and public opinion in contemporary China: Testing agenda building theory in a social mediated crisis

“…In order to analyze the salience transmission of the RCSC's agenda building, data were analyzed through a time series analysis using the vector autoregression (VAR) model (Freeman, William, & Lin, 1989;Sims, 1980), which has been widely applied in time series analyses in agenda-building research (Cheng, 2016a;Kleinnijenhuis et al, 2013). VAR is actually a set of multivariate regression equations.…”

“…Such first-level and second-level agenda building theories are mostly applied in democratic societies where interest groups and policy makers reach the public and influence their opinions by building mass media agendas (Berger, 2001;Kim et al, 2015, Kleinnijenhuis, Schultz, Utz, & Oegema, 2013. Democratic conditions for agenda building, however, seem not to be present in the RCSC case given the social and political situations in China.…”

Environmental Conflict and Media Coverage of an Oil Spill in Trinidad

“…Meissner's (2012) content analysis of media coverage of an oil spill from an offshore container ship during a state election generated adversarial, episodic, and governmental frames with an emphasis on political and government sources and less attention to socioeconomic issues that was consistent in international media coverage of oil similar disasters. Other studies have found that media framing has had an inhibiting influence on conflict in presenting controversial views while privileging profit over the social good of human or environmental health (Gilroy, 2011;Kleinnijenhuis, Schultz, Utz, & Oegema, 2015). Shultz, Walsh, Garfin, Wilson, and Neria's (2015) study of the multiimpact influence of the 2010 Deepwater Harbour oil spill, which was subjected to "extensive media coverage," on the psychological trauma experienced by persons found that the experience was counterbalanced by narratives of "remarkable resilience in the face of daunting challenges."…”