The New York Times' Conformity to AAPOR Standards of Disclosure for the Reporting of Public Opinion Polls

Márton, Krisztina; Stephens, Lowndes F.

doi:10.1177/107769900107800306

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“…Mediernes formidling af metodiske informationer i meningsmålingsartikler er undersøgt i en lang raekke lande, herunder blandt andet Sverige (Strömbäck 2009), USA (Miller & Hurd 1982;Salwen 1985;Marton & Stephens 2001;Weaver & Kim 2002;Welch 2002), Danmark (de Vreese & Semetko 2002), Schweiz (Hardmeier 1999), Canada (Andersen 2000;Gosselin & Pétry 2009), Tyskland (Brettschneider 1997;Holtz-Bacha 2012: 101f), Singapore (Chang 1999), Hongkong (Lee 2006) og Taiwan (Willnat et al 2012).…”

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“…Med andre ord vil sandsynligheden for, at der naevnes forskellige metodiske informationer vaere større, desto laengere artiklen er. Vores teoretiske antagelser ligger i forlaengelse af Marton & Stephens (2001), hvorfor vi ligeledes forventer en positiv sammenhaeng mellem artiklens laengde og formidlingen af metodiske informationer, som formuleret i hypotese 3.…”

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Mediernes formidling af meningsmålinger: Indholdsanalyse af folketingsvalg, 2005-2011

Larsen¹,

Straubinger²

2012

Politik

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This article examines the information the Danish news media provide when reporting public opinion polls. e study has been done through quantitative content analysis of 424 newspaper and Internet articles from four major Danish dailies during the last three parliamentary elections. e study found that only about half of the seven ESOMAR/WAPOR-requirements included here were reported. e results from the estimated regression show that the media in general provides more methodological information in newspaper articles than on the Internet, and that the media becomes better at reporting public opinion polls over time. Com- pared with studies conducted in other countries we nd no systematic deviation in how public opinion polls are reported in Denmark.

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Mediernes formidling af meningsmålinger: Indholdsanalyse af folketingsvalg, 2005-2011

Larsen¹,

Straubinger²

2012

Politik

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“…Rollberg, Sanders, and Buffalo's study highlighted differences in conformity rates between media outlets and also found that wording, sampling error, sampling method, and response rate received less coverage in all the papers under review. Marton and Stephens (2001) examined poll stories published in the New York Times between 1989 and 1997. Like Rollberg and her colleagues, they found that question wording, sampling method and frame, and margin of error were least often reported.…”

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The Regulation of Poll Reporting in Canada

Gosselin¹,

Pétry²

2009

Canadian Public Policy

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La Loi électorale du Canada, adoptée en 2000, régit la façon dont les médias doivent divulguer les données techniques concernant les méthodes utilisées pour réaliser des sondages en période électorale. Mais la couverture médiatique des sondages faits hors des périodes électorales, qui n'est pas soumise à ces règles, ne fait l'objet que d'une autorégulation. Dans cet article, nous analysons la couverture faite par trois journaux (La Presse, le Globe and Mail et le Calgary Herald) de ces deux types de sondages. Nos résultats montrent que la façon dont les médias divulguent les données techniques relatives aux sondages est loin de correspondre aux normes reconnues dans l'industrie. Toutefois, ces informations sont au moins aussi complètes dans le cas des sondages non électoraux que dans celui des sondages électoraux. Par ailleurs, on observe que, dans les articles de fond qui traitent de sondages réalisés pour les journaux qui les publient, on retrouve significativement plus de données techniques que dans les courts articles où il est simplement fait mention de sondages non réalisés pour le compte des journaux qui les publient. Nous concluons donc que les normes et les règles qui s'appliquent à la divulgation des méthodes utilisées dans les sondages influencent peu la façon habituelle dont les médias traitent des sondages. Mots clés : Loi électorale du Canada, données techniques concernant les méthodes utilisées dans les sondages pendant et hors des périodes électorales, journaux canadiensThe Canada Elections Act of 2000 regulates how the media must disclose the technical information regarding election polls. But the media coverage of non-election polls remains self-regulated. We examine how the technical information regarding election and non-election polling is reported in stories published by La Presse, the Globe and Mail, and the Calgary Herald. Our results show that, although media disclosure falls well short of the polling industry's standards, the technical information surrounding non-election polls is at least as complete as the information accompanying election polls. Long articles about polls sponsored by the media that publish them provide significantly more methodological information than short articles in which polls sponsored by "outside" organizations are mentioned in passing. These findings indicate that poll-reporting routines are relatively impervious to standards and rules regulating how poll results should be communicated to the public.

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“…Research has examined the number of online newspapers, the number of local broadcast networks with news Web sites, and the similarities and differences between broadcast and print Web sites (Lin & Jeffres, 2001;Middleberg & Ross, 2000, 2002Stempel, Hargrove, & Bernt, 2000;Wu & Bechtel, 2002). Researchers have also conducted content analyses of online news practices (Chan-Olmsted & Park, 2000;Lin & Jeffres, 2001;Marton & Stephens, 2001;McMillan, 2000;Singer, 2001). However, more questions about the integration of print, broadcast, and Internet news need to be asked.…”

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