“…Content analyses also have been performed on televised presentations of disability. Warzak, Majors, Hansell, and Allan (1988) examined 374 televised segments of 30 minutes each, which were randomly distributed across three major networks and three time periods, each in blocks of 3 hours. The investigators looked for the presence of disability, its relevance to the plot, and its valence in terms of being positive, negative, or neutral.…”