The Impact of Investigative Reporting on Public Opinion and Policymaking Targeting Toxic Waste

Protess, David; Cook, Fay Lomax; Curtin, Thomas R.; Gordon, Margaret S.; Leff, D.R.; McCombs, Maxwell; Miller, Peter

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“…Yet the actual impact of media coverage on citizen decision with respect to a particular risk remains unclear. Protess et al (1987) found that when examining the impact of reporting on toxic waste controversies media disclosures had limited effects on the general pubic but were influential in changing the attitudes of policy makers. Dunwoody (1993) argues that while mass media tell people something about the risk present in a society, interpersonal channels are used to determine the level of risk to individuals.…”

Section: The Role Of the Media In Risk Communicationmentioning

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Food safety and the consumer – perils of poor risk communication

Powell

2000

Can. J. Anim. Sci.

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Powell, D. A. 2000. Food safety and the consumer -perils of poor risk communication. Can. J. Anim. Sci. 80: 393-404. The potential for stigmatisation of food is enormous. Well-publicised outbreaks of foodborne pathogens and the furore over agricultural biotechnology are but two current examples of the interactions between science, policy and public perception. Current risk management research indicates that it is essential for risk managers to show that they are reducing, mitigating or minimising a particular risk. Those responsible must be able to effectively communicate their efforts and must be able to prove they are actually reducing levels of risk.The components for managing the stigma associated with any food safety issue involve the following factors: • effective and rapid surveillance systems;• effective communication about the nature of risk; • a credible, open and responsive regulatory system; • demonstrable efforts to reduce levels of uncertainty and risk; and, • evidence that actions match words.Appropriate risk management strategies, such as on-farm food safety programs, are essential to demonstrate to consumers and others in the farm-to-fork supply chain that producers and regulators are cognisant of their concerns about food safety. • autrement dit qu'on ne se contente pas de promesse. Des stratégies effectives de gestion des risques comme les programmes de sécurité alimentaire à la ferme sont essentielles si l'on veut montrer aux consommateurs et aux autres intéressés dans la chaîne d'approvisionnement que les producteurs et les pouvoirs de réglementation sont conscients de leurs préoccupations en matière de sécurité des aliments. Mots clés:Biotechnologie agricole, sécurité microbienne des aliments, aliments génétiquement modifiés, perception des risques, gestion des risques, transmission de l'information sur les risques Risk communication, the science of understanding scientific and technological risk and how it is communicated within a socio-political structure, is a relatively new scientific endeavour. Starr's 1969 paper was the first attempt to offer a scientific basis for thresholds of risk which were accepted by the public. As public concerns regarding nuclear power gained prominence in the 1970s, investigators tried to establish general principles of public risk acceptability. This was usually based on mortality statistics and the de minimis risk principle, which argued that if a risk can be effectively lowered to less than one additional fatality per million citizens, the risk is effectively zero (US National Research Council 1989). Such a morbid approach was uniformly unsuccessful. In the 1980s, several groups developed models that incorpo-393

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Section: The Role Of the Media In Risk Communicationmentioning

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Food safety and the consumer – perils of poor risk communication

Powell

2000

Can. J. Anim. Sci.

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“…Bartels, 1996). Some types of coverage such as investigative journalism clearly have a higher impact on politics than routine coverage (Protess et al, 1987). Coverage exerts more influence if it is congruent across outlets (Eilders, 2000).…”

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The Evolution of the Political Agenda Setting Concept in Foreign Political Studies

Александровна

2017

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Introduction: Political agenda-setting and mediatization as distinct worldsAgenda-setting is one of the most influential theories on the media's political influence (Graber, 2005). While often focusing on the media's impact on public opinion, another equally important facet of agenda-setting theory has the media's influence over the agendas of political actors and policy makers as its central object of investigation. Scholars use the term 'political agenda-setting' and in some instances 'agenda building' to refer to the transfer of media priorities to political priorities. Despite the growing popularity and importance of political agenda-setting research, it has seldom been conceptualized as part of or related to the mediatization of politics.For several reasons, political agenda-setting studies and mediatization studies have developed as almost completely distinct research schools (but see Van Noije, Oegema, & Kleinnijenhuis, 2008). Political agenda-setting studies share a strong empirical focus. They deal mainly with testing the effect of the media agenda on the political agenda in different contexts and circumstances. The basic question underlying most of the research reads: does more journalistic attention for an issue lead subsequently to more attention for that issue by politicians? With the help of sophisticated methods such as time series analyses researchers have been able to provide a nuanced and detailed answer to this question, identifying a set of contingent factors that determine the size and strength of the effect. While being empirically strong and analytically sophisticated, political agenda-setting work has, until recently, remained somewhat undertheorized. In particular, insights on why and how politicians adapt 2 to the agenda of the media are still in need of elaboration. Furthermore, agenda-setting focuses only on thematic priorities and it remains unclear how the impact of the media on issue agendas relates to other types of influence.The literature on mediatization, on the other hand, has been characterized by a broader theoretical input and goals (see chapter 1 and Y?), as well as by a broader scope covering media influence on several areas outside politics. The thesis on mediatization of politics provides an overarching view on the role of the media in the political system, and is in this volume defined as a long-term process through which the importance and influence of media in political processes and over political institutions and actors has increased (see chapter 1).While being strong on conceptual discussions and theoretical perspectives, the mediatization literature is lacking in empirical research.. Admittedly, some recent studies explore mediatization empirically. For instance, related to the 3 rd dimension of mediatization (see chapter x), Strömbäck and Nord (2006) find that journalists retain the most power over the content and framing of news while other studies document how mediatization of news content is stronger in the US compared to Europe (Strömbäck & Dimitrova, 2011;...

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“…A typical example is 'investigative journalism', whereby the news outlet denounces a certain practice or problem (Protess et al, 1987). Potential political effects of such coverage are truly caused by the media.…”

Section: What Politicians Learn From the Mediamentioning

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One concept, many interpretations: the media’s causal roles in political agenda-setting processes

Sevenans

2017

Eur. Pol. Sci. Rev.

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While political agenda-setting scholars agree that the news media matter when it comes to agenda setting, surprisingly, there is no consensus on the exact role these media play in the agenda-setting process. In particular, causal interpretations of the media's role are diverse. This contribution focuses on this ambiguity in the agenda-setting field. First, it outlines the main reasons for the disagreement, both on a theoretical and on an empirical level. Second, it develops a theoretical model that helps to specify what role the news media play under various circumstances. Overall, the paper strongly encourages scholars to reflect more on causal mechanisms in political agenda-setting work, and makes a first attempt at facilitating the interpretation of extant and future findings.

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The Impact of Investigative Reporting on Public Opinion and Policymaking Targeting Toxic Waste

Cited by 91 publications

References 11 publications

Food safety and the consumer – perils of poor risk communication

Food safety and the consumer – perils of poor risk communication

The Evolution of the Political Agenda Setting Concept in Foreign Political Studies

One concept, many interpretations: the media’s causal roles in political agenda-setting processes

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