All the Rioting That's Fit to Print: Selection Effects in National Newspaper Coverage of Civil Disorders, 1968-1969
All the Rioting That's Fit to Print: Selection Effects in National Newspaper Coverage of Civil Disorders, 1968-1969
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所有适合印刷的骚乱：全国报纸报道内乱的选择效应，1968-1969
DOI：
10.1177/000312240406900403
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发表时间：
2004
影响因子：
9.1
通讯作者：
B. Caniglia
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作者：
D. J. Myers;B. Caniglia
本研究考察了20世纪60年代末关于内乱的报纸报道中的选择效应。研究人员将美国各地报纸上记录的一系列事件与两家全国性报纸——《纽约时报》和《华盛顿邮报》——记录的这些事件的子集进行了比较，这两家报纸通常用于构建集体事件数据库。结果表明，这两份报纸加起来报道的疾病不到所有疾病的一半，而且报道的疾病是根据事件强度、距离、事件密度、城市人口规模、行动者类型和一周中的一天来选择的。为了证明这些选择模式对内乱的实质性分析的影响，作者用所有报道的事件重复了早期的研究，然后只使用《纽约时报》和《华盛顿邮报》报道的事件重复了分析。这一程序在结果上显示出一些实质性的差异。讨论了这些发现对事件分析和对媒体选择的实质性理解的含义。
This study examined selection effects in newspaper reports about civil disorders in the late 1960s. A comprehensive set of events recorded in newspapers across the United States was compared with the subsets of these events recorded in two national newspapers often used to construct collective event data bases-the New York Times and the Washington Post. The results demonstrate that fewer than half of all disorders are covered in these two newspapers combined, and that those reported are selected on the basis of event intensity, distance, event density, city population size, type of actor, and day of the week. To demonstrate the effects of these selection patterns on substantive analysis of civil disorder, the authors replicated earlier studies using all reported events, and then repeated the analyses using only the events reported in the Times and the Post. This procedure showed some substantial differences in results. The implications of these findings for event analyses and for substantive understandings of media selection are discussed.