The 2004 New Hampshire Democratic Primary and Network News

Farnsworth, Stephen J.; Lichter, S. Robert

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“…Jacobs et al 2017;Vliegenthart and Boomgaarden 2007) and the over-time tendency of media to become increasingly focused on negative incidents (e.g. Farnsworth and Robert Lichter 2006;Semetko and Schoenbach 2003). These observations lead us to hypothesize that, with transportation via airplane becoming safer over the years, real-world data (i.e.…”

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Mediatization and the Disproportionate Attention to Negative News

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Do news media increasingly portray a distorted world image when reporting menace? The purpose of this study is to investigate how media attention for negative incidents evolves over time and how this relates to real-world trends and public responses. A longitudinal content analysis of media coverage of aviation incidents is used to provide a systematic investigation into the trends of media attention related to real-world data. Results show that while the total number of aviation incidents declined across time, relative media attention increased. Time series analysis revealed that media attention for these negative incidents was negatively associated with shifts in public responses-i.e. air travel behavior-whereas real-world statistics on aviation incidents did not seem to explain variation in public behavior. Moreover, when exploring the variation in the coverage of media attention, increasing presence of mediatization facets was observed as a potential explanation for the over-time rise in disproportional attention to negative news. In conclusion, news media may have a blind spot for progression and a distorted media reality can be a predictor of public responses instead of reality itself. KEYWORDS mediatization; negative news; news media logics; public responses; time series analysis IntroductionNews media are often accused of creating a distorted reality (e.g. Kitzinger 1999). First, in their reportage, media are frequently skewed toward the negative side if it comes to selecting news items (Hester and Gibson 2003). The journalistic tendency to focus on negative news is repeatedly considered an outcome of routine selection procedures of those stories that are believed to garner the highest ratings (e.g. Altheide 1997; Lawrence and Mueller 2003). Second, infrequent and isolated incidents have become part of the daily-news reportage, turning these rare events into the common world image (Altheide 1997;Park et al. 2009). As news develops a life of its own, one can observe discrepancies between what actually happens in the world and how the media portray it. Consequently, this research is broadly concerned with the role of the news media in processes of social construction and amplification of low-probability highconsequence negative incidents.Journalism Studies, 2019 Vol. 20, No. 6, 783-803, https This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/ 4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.Scholars have argued that, as a consequence of increased commercial pressures on news media institutions, media's penchant for the negative and the exceptional has become more prominent over time (e.g. Farnsworth and Robert Lichter 2006;Semetko and Schoenbach 2003) Indeed, it has been argued that factors such as negativity have grown to become among t...

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“…Farnsworth and Robert Lichter 2006;Semetko and Schoenbach 2003) Indeed, it has been argued that factors such as negativity have grown to become among the most dominant selection criteria of today's media logics (e.g. Lawrence and Mueller 2003;Park et al 2009).…”

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“…Moreover, media coverage during campaigns influences public perception of the performance of candidates and parties, and consequently also their voting behavior (Kleinnijenhuis et al, 2007;Kiousis et al, 2006;Farnsworth and Lichter, 2006). Issue ownership theory states that attention to the issues a party owns Ϫ issues with which the electorate associates that party Ϫ have a positive effect on the level of support for that party (Budge and Farlie, 1983;Petrocik, 1996).…”

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“…Research shows that journalistic choices during campaigns affect public opinion, the perceived performance of candidates and parties, and voting behavior (Kleinnijenhuis et al, 2007;Kiousis et al, 2006;Farnsworth and Lichter, 2006). This does not mean, however, that the news always benefits the same party.…”

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Old ties from a new(s) perspective: Diversity in the Dutch press coverage of the 2006 general election campaign

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Hoof

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This study examines the extent to which the highly diverse and volatile Dutch electorate received a diverse offer of political newspaper coverage during the 2006 general election campaign. We measured the level of diversity of five subscription based national newspapers with a partisan history and two free dailies. Two forms of diversity were examined: party diversity (i. e., the distribution of attention to political parties) and issue diversity (i. e., the distribution of attention to issues). The diversity of party coverage in the free dailies was greater than the diversity across all newspapers. Whereas free dailies paid a relatively large amount of attention to new and opposition parties, traditional newspapers paid a relatively large amount of attention to the parties with whom they were aligned during the period of "pillarization". Conversely, we only found small differences in the distribution of attention to issues. The diversity of issue coverage across newspapers was larger than the diversity within newspapers.

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“…In the 2004 Democratic nomination competition, for example, former Vermont Governor Howard Dean led in 16 of the 22 New Hampshire tracking polls conducted by American Research Group in the weeks before that state's crucial first-in-the-nation primary, often by double digit margins (Farnsworth and Lichter 2006). U.S. Sen. John Kerry (D-MA), the eventual nominee, was ahead only in the final six tracking polls, all conducted at least in part after his come-from-behind Iowa Caucus victory.…”

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CBC News Coverage of Canada's 2006 Liberal Party Leadership Candidates

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Schatz³

2009

American Review of Canadian Studies

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Content-coded CBC evening newscasts are used to examine reports on the eight candidates for Liberal Party Leader in the weeks before the party's 2006 convention. In a sharp contrast news reports on U.S. presidential nominations, "The National" provided coverage balanced between the horse race and more substantive matters, including policy discussions and a candidate's personality and leadership qualities. But like US nomination coverage, "The National" largely ignored trailing candidates, focusing nearly all of its attention on the likely and plausible nominees. In terms of tone, "The National" provided "compensatory coverage," where frontrunners were more treated more negatively than the candidates further back in the field.

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The 2004 New Hampshire Democratic Primary and Network News

Cited by 17 publications

References 10 publications

Mediatization and the Disproportionate Attention to Negative News

Mediatization and the Disproportionate Attention to Negative News

Old ties from a new(s) perspective: Diversity in the Dutch press coverage of the 2006 general election campaign

CBC News Coverage of Canada's 2006 Liberal Party Leadership Candidates

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