Peer reviewedERIC Number: EJ360689
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Publication Date: 1987
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Risk Analysis and the Construction of News.
Wilkins, Lee; Patterson, Philip
Journal of Communication, v37 n3 p80-92 Sum 1987
Explains that the news media commit fundamental errors of attribution in covering risk situations by (1) treating them as novelties, (2) failing to analyze the entire system, and (3) using insufficiently analytical language. (NKA)
Descriptors: Chemical Reactions, Content Analysis, Cultural Context, Foreign Countries, Information Sources, Language Styles, Mass Media Effects, Media Research, News Media, News Reporting, Public Health, Public Service, Radiation Effects, Risk, Scientific and Technical Information, Social Responsibility
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: India; USSR
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