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Mountaintop Removal: An Assessment Of The Propaganda Model Of The News Media, Tonya Lynn Adkins
Mountaintop Removal: An Assessment Of The Propaganda Model Of The News Media, Tonya Lynn Adkins
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This research used the method of content analysis to examine how the issue of mountaintop removal mining was presented in four print media sources: the Logan Banner, the Charleston Gazette, the Herald Dispatch, and Graffiti. The propaganda model put forth in Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media, by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, was used as the model upon which the research was based.
The purpose of the research was to determine whether or not the coal industry exerts a form of censorship over print media sources in West Virginia. It also sought to determine if there …