新作坊

新作坊 Humanity Innovation and Social Practice

Nationwide newspaper coverage of universal health care: A community structure approach

摘要:

A study of the universal health insurance mandate compared hypotheses linking newspaper coverage and different city characteristics using the “community structure” approach to research, as elaborated by Tichenor, Donohue, and Olien (1973, 1980), Demers and Viswanath (1999), Pollock (2007) and others.[See November/December (14: 6) special issue ofMass Communication and Society on “community structure” scholarship.] Sampling all articles of 250 words or more from 22 major metropolitan newspapers in a national ...