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Foreign News And Public Opinion: Attribute Agenda-Setting Theory Revisited, Asya A. Besova
Foreign News And Public Opinion: Attribute Agenda-Setting Theory Revisited, Asya A. Besova
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This study contributes to the body of research on public opinion and media coverage of foreign news by examining the coverage of nine foreign countries in The New York Times and The Times. Media coverage and the public opinion about foreign nations were strongly correlated. Specifically, negative coverage tends to have more agenda-setting effects than neutral and positive coverage. The findings also suggest that media portray foreign countries in a unidimensional fashion, by limiting the coverage around a few policy issues. Finally, the U.S. and the U.K. media coverage of foreign nations were very similar.