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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"television news media"”.
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Cultivation of fear of Blacks in Las Vegas television news media
This study was a content analysis of Las Vegas television news ( N = 1,145) and was designed to determine whether the potential exists for media consumers in the Las Vegas market to become fearful due to the overrepresentation of crime committed by Black offenders. One research question and two …
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Words of War: Presidential Rationales for Military Action From World War II to Iraq
… relied on these rationales?; To what extent have television news media echoed these rationales?; Do rationales for war present in news coverage influence public support for war? To address the first question, a typology of presidential rationales is developed through synthesis of the extant …
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Twelve Days of Hell: A Study of Violence, Historical Memory, and Media Coverage of the York, Pennsylvania Race Riots, 1968-2003
… large and small for more than a century, and the media have retold these brutal events for American audiences. The 1960s, in particular, endured years of violent rioting due to social and economic inequalities between whites and blacks, and many of these riots have received ample coverage from the …
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A Comparative Pentadic Analysis of Mediated Presidential Discourse During 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina
… rhetorical response and the primetime network news coverage following each crisis in an attempt to determine how President Bush could fare so well in one instance, consoling and leading the American people, while falling short in his second major crisis during his term as president.
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The Mediation of Personal Distress on Negative Television News and Donations
Previous research has shown that negative television news can lead to a reduction in positive affect (Harrell, 2000; Szabo & Hopkinson, 2007). What has yet to be investigated though is how negative television news influences an individual's interactions with others; precisely, how negative …