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| Title | Network television news coverage of environmental risks |
| Creator/Author | Greenberg, M.R. ; Sandman, P.M. ; Sachsman, D.V. ; Salomone, K.L. |
| Publication Date | 1989 Mar 01 |
| OSTI Identifier | OSTI ID: 6083820 |
| Other Number(s) | Journal ID: CODEN: ENVTA |
| Resource Type | Journal Article |
| Resource Relation | Journal Name: Environment; (United States); Journal Volume: 31:2 |
| Research Org | Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, NJ (USA) |
| Subject | 54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; 63 RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRON. POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGS. AND BIOL. MAT.; DIOXIN; RISK ASSESSMENT; FALLOUT; ISOCYANATES; COMMUNICATIONS; ENVIRONMENT; HEALTH HAZARDS; REACTOR ACCIDENTS; TELEVISION; ACCIDENTS; HAZARDS; HETEROCYCLIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC OXYGEN COMPOUNDS |
| Description/Abstract | Despite the criticisms that surround television coverage of environmental risk, there have been relatively few attempts to measure what and whom television shows. Most research has focused analysis on a few weeks of coverage of major stories like the gas leak at Bhopal, the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, or the Mount St. Helen's eruption. To advance the research into television coverage of environmental risk, an analysis has been made of all environmental risk coverage by the network nightly news broadcasts for a period of more than two years. Researchers have analyzed all environmental risk coverage-564 stories in 26 months-presented on ABC, CBS, and NBC's evening news broadcasts from January 1984 through February 1986. The quantitative information from the 564 stories was balanced by a more qualitative analysis of the television coverage of two case studies-the dioxin contamination in Times Beach, Missouri, and the suspected methyl isocyanate emissions from the Union Carbide plant in Institute, West Virginia. Both qualitative and quantitative data contributed to the analysis of the role played by experts and environmental advocacy sources in coverage of environmental risk and to the suggestions for increasing that role. |
| Country of Publication | United States |
| Language | English |
| Format | Medium: X; Size: Pages: 16-20 |
| System Entry Date | 2008 Feb 07 |
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