Nationwide Newspaper Coverage of Immigration Reform: A Community Structure Approach

Pollock, John C.; Gratale, Stefanie K; Teta, Kevin; Bauer, Kyle; Hoekstra, Elyse

doi:10.1080/15456870.2014.917311

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“…The 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion discovered more favorable coverage in cities with higher percentages below the poverty level or African American (Pollock, Robinson, and Murray, 1978). Other studies revealed associations between higher poverty levels and more favorable coverage of legislation, including a Patient's Bill of Rights and immigration reform (Pollock, 2007: 151;Pollock et al, 2014Pollock et al, , 2015; and less favorable coverage of capital punishment (Pollock, 2007: 138-146). Further, higher levels of uninsured are linked to more media emphasis on government responsibility for gun regulation (Sparano et al, 2020).…”

Section: Vulnerability Hypothesismentioning

confidence: 99%

US Nationwide Coronavirus Newspaper Coverage of Federal/National Government Responses: Community Structure Theory and a “Violated Buffer”

Pollock¹,

Govindarajan²,

Marta³

et al. 2021

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Community structure analysis (Pollock, 2007, 2013a, 2015) compared city characteristics and newspaper coverage of federal/Trump administration coronavirus responses in 18 major US cities, sampling all 250+ word articles from 01/28/20 to 04/03/20. The resulting 123 articles were coded for “prominence” and “direction” (favorable/unfavorable/balanced-neutral coverage), then combined into each newspaper’s composite “Media Vector” (range= 0.3850 to -0.6433, or 1.033). Fifteen of 18 newspapers (83%) displayed negative coverage of federal COVID-19 responses. Pearson correlations and regression analysis confirmed a robust “violated buffer” pattern (higher proportions of economically/socially “buffered” privileged groups are associated with negative coverage of “biological threats or threats to a cherished way of life”: Pollock, 2007: 101), manifest in political and religious polarization and links between health access or generational privilege and negative coverage of federal COVID-19 actions. Higher proportions voting Democratic or Catholic membership in cities were associated strongly with negative coverage of federal efforts, while voting Republican and Evangelical membership accompanied positive federal coverage, evoking nationwide partisan “tribalism”. Privileged healthcare access (physicians/100,000, municipal healthcare spending) and economically “privileged” age groups 45-64 and 65+ were all connected to negative coverage of federal COVID-19 responses, illuminating overall “violated” expectations that the national government is responsible for nationwide disaster protection. Keywords: COVID-19, community structure theory, newspapers, government, media.

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Section: Vulnerability Hypothesismentioning

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US Nationwide Coronavirus Newspaper Coverage of Federal/National Government Responses: Community Structure Theory and a “Violated Buffer”

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Govindarajan²,

Marta³

et al. 2021

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“…A study on the newspaper coverage of handling water contamination included the percentage of African Americans and that of Hispanics in a city, respectively, as independent variables and found that the proportion of Hispanic population was positively linked to support for government efforts, instead of societal efforts, to regulate or impose access to clean water (Pollock & Branca, 2011). In the debate over the proposed 2006 immigration reform, attention was focused on Hispanics because the tidal wave of recent illegal immigration had come from Latin America.…”

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Framing of the Immigration Reform in 2006

Chang¹

2015

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

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This content analysis examined how the U.S. newspaper editorials framed the immigration reform in 2006 and what community characteristics-structural pluralism, Hispanic ethnic identity, partisanship, and religion-might have affected their frames.The results showed that editorials in communities that were more structurally or ethnically pluralistic and less politically or religiously conservative were more likely to support granting citizenship to illegal immigrants. The more structurally or ethnically pluralistic the community, the more likely its editorials perceived illegal immigrants as "beneficial" to the country. The more religiously or politically conservative the community, the more likely its editorials perceived illegal immigrants as "harmful."

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“…ICE raids at the workplace have made immigration a more visible issue in America's small and medium-sized cities in the 21 st Century (Kivisto & Faist, 2010). Immigration in media coverage has steadily gained importance in the past decade (Pollock et al, 2014).…”

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Social Media & Agenda Melding: Understanding Trump’s Proposed Border Wall

Spencer

Croucher

2022

SMC

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TrumpTrumIt has been well documented, primarily through agenda-setting research, that media impact the public’s perception of which issues are important political topics (Behr & Igengar, 1985; Dearing, 1989; Kimsey & Hantz, 1978; McCombs & Shaw, 1972). The media essentially tell the public which key policy issues to think about and to some degree how they should form opinions about those issues (McCombs, Llamas, Lopez-Escobar & Rey, 1997). Individuals only have knowledge of those issues through media exposure if they do not have access to direct experience (Noelle-Neumann, 1984) and must form their opinions on the subject through the frames set by the media (Wanta, Golan & Lee, 2004).It has been well documented, primarily through agenda-setting research, that media impact the public’s perception of which issues are important political topics (Behr & Igengar, 1985; Dearing, 1989; Kimsey & Hantz, 1978; McCombs & Shaw, 1972). The media essentially tell the public which key policy issues to think about and to some degree how they should form opinions about those issues (McCombs, Llamas, Lopez-Escobar & Rey, 1997). Individuals only have knowledge of those issues through media exposure if they do not have access to direct experience (Noelle-Neumann, 1984) and must form their opinions on the subject through the frames set by the media (Wanta, Golan & Lee, 2004).This study explores how belief in social media outlets is an important aspect of agenda melding in an online environment. In this study, the researchers employ agenda melding as a theoretical lens to explore how belief in social media outlet can predict support for the proposed Border Wall. The researchers surveyed 232 people to find out how belief in media outlet contributes to building an online media agenda in the context of immigration. Social media networks continue to grow in influence when it comes to understanding important political issues and the way they manifest themselves in mainstream United States immigration policy.

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Nationwide Newspaper Coverage of Immigration Reform: A Community Structure Approach

Cited by 7 publications

References 15 publications

US Nationwide Coronavirus Newspaper Coverage of Federal/National Government Responses: Community Structure Theory and a “Violated Buffer”

US Nationwide Coronavirus Newspaper Coverage of Federal/National Government Responses: Community Structure Theory and a “Violated Buffer”

Framing of the Immigration Reform in 2006

Social Media & Agenda Melding: Understanding Trump’s Proposed Border Wall

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