Homicide and Bargained Justice: The Agenda-Setting Effect of Crime News on Prosecutors

Pritchard, David M.

doi:10.1086/268971

Cited by 52 publications

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“…Some research has documented an agenda-setting influence (Berk, Brookman, and Lesser 1977;Einstadter 1979;Fisher 1989;Gordon and Heath 1981;Haskins and Miller 1984;Pritchard 1986). For example, Forst and Blomquist (1991) argued that the news media invented social concern about missing children, which resulted in political pressure to make changes in the system.…”

Section: Body Count News: How Crime Is Presented In the News Media* Smentioning

confidence: 99%

Body count news: How crime is presented in the news media

Chermak

1994

Justice Quarterly

106

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Section: Body Count News: How Crime Is Presented In the News Media* Smentioning

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Body count news: How crime is presented in the news media

Chermak

1994

Justice Quarterly

106

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“…Dearing and Rogers (1996) measured the number of news stories as an indicator of media attention and the popularity of certain issues (cf. Benton and Frazier, 1976;Golan and Wanta, 2001;Kiousis, 2004;Pritchard, 1986). Wu (2000) studied the frequency of news items mentioning different countries in the international section of newspapers from 38 countries.…”

Section: News About Spainmentioning

confidence: 99%

Counter Publicity of Kurdish Women Journals: ROZA as an Alternative Media Exam

Tahincioğlu¹,

Ova²

2015

RJMC

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This study measures the presence of Spain in online news worldwide as an example of the significance of economic news in a globalizing, interdependent environment. Employing the ´Global Salience Meter` based on a multilingual news-mining technique, Spain´s relative prominence was traced over 43 months in 35 leading news sites in 10 languages. Our findings reveal a growing online attention given to Spain, especially in the business section of European digital news outlets. Network analysis of country co-mentions finds that together with European countries, Spain is frequently mentioned together with the US and international organizations. This reflects the underlying regional and global economic structures and ties related to the European economic recession. More generally it points to the increasing connectedness of the world´s economies and the world´s online news reporting.

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“…Possible roles of the news media range from merely reflecting popular beliefs and attitudes to acting as a cultural agent for change in the public perception of a particular topic.5 Most studies of media influence report high positive associations between media coverage and public perceptions of social issues,6 but few show direct effects of publicity. 7 Researchers skeptical of the influence of the news media have argued that, more than actually changing opinions, the media set the agenda for political debate of an issue, affecting what people perceive as political, social, or cultural priorities8 or the "symbolic agenda" of policymakers.9 Media coverage not only supplies the public and politicians with details about news items but also informs them indirectly about the importance of social issues. For example, changes in the proportion of the public that perceived drugs as the "most important social problem facing the nation today" were found to correlate with the frequency with which the print media described drug abuse as a cnsis.…”

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Coverage of beverage alcohol issues in the print media in the United States, 1985-1991.

Lemmens¹,

Vaeth²,

Greenfield³

1999

Am J Public Health

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OBJECTIVES: This study assessed the portrayal of alcohol-related issues in the print media in the United States during the 7-year period bracketing implementation of the US alcohol warning label act in November 1988. METHODS: All articles that appeared from 1985 to 1991 in 5 national newspapers and that were indexed as dealing with beverage alcohol were identified. Content analysis of a 15% sample of these articles allowed an in-depth assessment of the conceptualization of alcohol in the US print media. RESULTS: A slight decrease in articles related to alcoholism was offset by an increase in articles about the more general health-related effects of alcohol. The warning label act received little attention. Most articles portrayed alcohol neutrally or negatively, using information from government sources. CONCLUSIONS: Portrayal of alcohol in the US print media has changed in recent decades. A general shift noted as early as the 1960s has increasingly emphasized public health issues and deemphasized clinical aspects of alcoholism. This has been accompanied by a continuing shift away from a biopsychological definition of alcohol-related behavior to a definition stressing external environmental factors.

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Homicide and Bargained Justice: The Agenda-Setting Effect of Crime News on Prosecutors

Cited by 52 publications

References 30 publications

Body count news: How crime is presented in the news media

Body count news: How crime is presented in the news media

Counter Publicity of Kurdish Women Journals: ROZA as an Alternative Media Exam

Coverage of beverage alcohol issues in the print media in the United States, 1985-1991.

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