Balance as bias: global warming and the US prestige press

被引：837
作者：
Boykoff, MT
Boykoff, JM
机构：
[1] Univ Calif Santa Cruz, Dept Environm Studies, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 USA
[2] American Univ, Dept Govt, St Marys City, MD 20686 USA
来源：
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS | 2004年 / 14卷 / 02期
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D O I：
10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2003.10.001
中图分类号：
X [环境科学、安全科学];
学科分类号：
08 ; 0830 ;
摘要：
This paper demonstrates that US prestige-press coverage of global warming from 1988 to 2002 has contributed to a significant divergence of popular discourse from scientific discourse. This failed discursive translation results from an accumulation of tactical media responses and practices guided by widely accepted journalistic norms. Through content analysis of US prestige press-meaning the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal-this paper focuses on the norm of balanced reporting, and shows that the prestige press's adherence to balance actually leads to biased coverage of both anthropogenic contributions to global warming and resultant action. (C) 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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页码：125 / 136
页数：12
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