Deciding Who's News: A Content Analysis of Disaster, National and International News in Two Elite Newspapers from 1885 through 1989

Abstract

This study analyses the relationship between international news references and disaster news references in the New York Times and the Los Angels Times. The American media receive frequent criticism for inadequate coverage of news from other nations. Both formal and informal critics charge the United States media with bias, incompetence, inaccuracy, and distortion when reporting foreign news. Using a computerized content analysis model to analyze print journalism coverage, the author examines the characteristics of foreign news going out to readers of the New York Time and the Los Angeles Times. The research suggests that there is a demonstratable relationship between the loss of human life in a foreign nation and the power and politics of that nation and its portrayal in the American media.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1990
Accession Number
ADA242830

Entities

People

  • Cindy L. Sito

Organizations

  • University of Texas at Austin

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accidents
  • Computers
  • Data Science
  • Descriptive Analytics
  • Information Science
  • Insurgency
  • International Relations
  • Journalism
  • Language
  • Mass Media
  • Natural Disasters
  • New York
  • Reliability
  • Sampling
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistics
  • United States

Readers

  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.
  • Political Science/ International Relations/ European Studies