Medicine in the Popular Press¶
Young, Norman, & Humphreys. (2008). Medicine in the Popular Press: The Influence of the Media on Perceptions of Disease. PLoS ONE.
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Domain-specific¶
- Agenda Distortion
- Political communication. The canonical home, where McCombs and Shaw's agenda-setting tradition shows media salience predicting audience-perceived issue importance more reliably than it predicts policy stakes — electoral horse-race coverage being the recurring case. Public-health communication. Outbreak coverage volume tracks drama and newsworthiness rather than epidemiological incidence (Ebola versus malaria, measles versus flu)
This sourceYoung et al.'s finding that media coverage is driven by rare, novel and dramatic diseases rather than by higher relative risk, biasing public perceptions of disease.
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“The media tend to focus on rare and dramatic events. As a topic receives repeated coverage in the media, public attention is drawn towards that particular topic”
- Political communication. The canonical home, where McCombs and Shaw's agenda-setting tradition shows media salience predicting audience-perceived issue importance more reliably than it predicts policy stakes — electoral horse-race coverage being the recurring case. Public-health communication. Outbreak coverage volume tracks drama and newsworthiness rather than epidemiological incidence (Ebola versus malaria, measles versus flu)
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