Media and apocalypse : news coverage of the Yellowstone forest fires, Exxon Valdez oil spill, and Loma Prieta earthquake

著者

• Smith, Conrad

書誌事項

Media and apocalypse : news coverage of the Yellowstone forest fires, Exxon Valdez oil spill, and Loma Prieta earthquake

Conrad Smith

（Contributions to the study of mass media and communications, no. 36）

Greenwood, 1992

注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-206) and index

内容説明・目次

内容説明

This book is a critical examination of how newspaper and television journalists reported three catastrophes. The focus is on the processes by which journalists identified news sources and gathered data, on the professional values of the journalists and on the ways that those values contributed to or interfered with good reporting. The book is based on examination of several thousand newspaper and television stories, on surveys of more than 600 journalists and their sources, on evaluations of news accounts by independent experts, on personal visits to the sites of the catastrophes, and on interviews with more than 100 reporters, correspondents, producers, editors, and their sources. The scholarly goal of the book is to provide a theoretical understanding of the process by which reporters gather information for these kinds of stories and thus to identify changes in the journalistic routine that might encourage more accurate and comprehensive coverage of public issues. He shows how television reports sometimes influence the ways print reporters structure their stories, an effect he calls journalistic priming. He examines the ways in which Pulitzer Prize-winning stories are different from others, and attempts to integrate reporters' and sources' comments with the theoretical literature. This is the first book-length effort that uses a single research design to compare how both print and television journalists covered several major events, and to examine the interrelationship between the television and newspaper reporting. Other scholars often ignore one or the other, as though the two media operated independently.

目次

Catastrophes and the News Media How Events Become News: The Search for Truth "This is What's Left of Yellowstone Tonight": Urban Reporters and Wilderness Fire The Unthinkable Happens: Oil in Prince William Sound A Prediction Comes True: The 1989 "World Series" Earthquake News Practices and Catastrophes: Reporters, Symbols and Public Myths Reporters and Experts: Strategies for Better Journalism Appendix: Details of the Research Methods Bibliography Index

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詳細情報

• NII書誌ID(NCID): BA19588830
• ISBN:
  • 0313277257
• LCCN: 92009316
• 出版国コード: us
• タイトル言語コード: eng
• 本文言語コード: eng
• 出版地: Westport, Conn. ; London
• ページ数/冊数: xv, 213 p.
• 大きさ: 25 cm
• 分類:
  • LCC : PN4888.D57
  • DC20 : 303.48/5
• 件名:
  • LCSH : Disasters in the press -- United States
• 親書誌ID:
  • BA00466612