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A framing analysis of the representation of the BP crisis in American newspapers: How do American news media frame the BP crisis?
Author(s) -
Choi Jinbong
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of public affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.221
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1479-1854
pISSN - 1472-3891
DOI - 10.1002/pa.1691
Subject(s) - newspaper , framing (construction) , theme (computing) , crisis communication , attribution , media studies , frame analysis , content analysis , representation (politics) , politics , news media , political science , political crisis , history , advertising , public relations , sociology , social science , law , psychology , social psychology , business , computer science , archaeology , operating system
This study aims to identify how American major newspapers frame the BP's Gulf of Mexico oil spill crisis in 2 major daily newspapers, The New York Times and USA Today . In addition, this study exams what kinds of themes are used in conjunction with news frames for covering the BP oil spill crisis in the Gulf of Mexico. 489 articles were analyzed, 353 articles for The New York Times and 136 articles for USA Today . In a pretest, this study identified 6 main frames and 9 themes used by the collected news articles, and these 6 frames and 9 themes were used to analyze the collected news articles. Among 6 frames, the most common primary frame in the New York Times was attribution of responsibility, as compared to the most common primary theme in USA Today , solution. On the other hand, the most common theme in The New York Times was stopping the oil, as opposed to the most common theme found in USA Today, politics.