[lit-ideas] Re: Study: Media coverage has favored Obama campaign
- From: Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 04:13:50 -0500
>>Thus, mere reference to "scholars and researchers"
has no standing as evidence unless we are told just
what it is that they are proposing.
Groeling wants to quantify partisan media bias, taking
into account the so-called "hostile media effect,"
which you, as a partisan Democrat, both identified and
exemplified when calling the GOP complaints griping or
whining.
Lichter's methodology is narrow. He performs content
analysis on transcripts of TV news broadcasts at the
statement level. The article calls this "a respected
and widely adopted method."
Some media theorists have developed "attitude scales,"
like the political value scale designed by Groseclose
at UCLA, factoring in such standards as the complete
voting records of the House and Senate, and scaling
these against public comments.
Others, such as Skewes at University of Colorado, are
developing frame-analysis models. That study attempts
to model the tendency of journalists "to start seeing
the story the same way."
It interests me because it might herald the beginning
of a new science of weighing the everyday propaganda
that makes us have, in Roth's words, "the emotions of a
child and the pain of an adult."
Cheers!
Eric
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