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"A Deadly Game Of Russian Roulette": Exploring The Framing Of The Opioid Crisis In Canadian News Media, Lorna Ferguson
"A Deadly Game Of Russian Roulette": Exploring The Framing Of The Opioid Crisis In Canadian News Media, Lorna Ferguson
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the framing of the opioid crisis in Canadian news media. Using a 'frame analysis' approach (Entman 1993), the following questions are addressed: (1) How has the opioid crisis been framed in recent Canadian news articles?; (2) How often (frequency) are each of the frames documented in recent Canadian news articles?; and (3) What is the dominant frame? To answer these questions, this study draws on the results of a content analysis of 314 news articles published between January 2018 to December 2018. Data collected through systematic searches of the Canadian Major Dailies …