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Baseball And Steroids In The News: How Politicians And Reporters Construct The News, Claudia Kozman
Baseball And Steroids In The News: How Politicians And Reporters Construct The News, Claudia Kozman
LSU Master's Theses
This study is a content analysis of newspaper coverage of baseball and steroids. The data are a random sample from four newspapers: Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Washington Post. The period under study consists of 77 weeks, from April 10th, 2003, to December 9th, 2004. The results supported four hypotheses and negated one. Analysis showed that the issue of baseball and steroids was not institution-driven news; it was the result of governmental action, events outside of government, and local interest. The number of stories rose after governmental action. It also rose after …
Risk Reporting And Source Credibility: Trying To Make The Readers Interested, Raluca Cozma
Risk Reporting And Source Credibility: Trying To Make The Readers Interested, Raluca Cozma
LSU Master's Theses
An experiment with 98 participants was conducted to explore the effects of government versus multiple sources on perceived credibility and interest when applied to the same risk stories. It also analyzed the effects of source treatment on participants' assessment of government credibility and source reasonableness. The study investigated the effects of demographic characteristics of participants (age, gender, media use) on the same variables, and tried to determine if there was any statistical correlation between the two dependent variables of credibility and interest. It also analyzed the effects of human-interest reports on credibility and interest. Overall, the study found that participants …