Making news: the appearance of tobacco control organizations in newspaper coverage of tobacco control issues.
Am J Health Promot
; 26(3): 166-71, 2012.
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ABSTRACT
PURPOSE:
To characterize the presence of advocacy groups in media coverage about tobacco issues.DESIGN:
A content analysis of tobacco-related newspaper articles.SETTING:
Australia. SAMPLE All 12 national and state capital daily newspapers published in Australia between 2004 and 2007.MEASURES:
We coded each article for explicit mentions of any of 16 major national or state tobacco control advocacy groups; for the article type, prominence, and topic; for the tone of the event; and for the author's opinion.ANALYSIS:
A series of 2 × 2 χ(2) analyses assessed the extent to which advocacy groups were more or less likely to be mentioned in articles of each type, prominence, topic, event impact, and opinion orientation.RESULTS:
Of the 4387 tobacco-related articles published over this period, 22% mentioned an advocacy group. There was a greater-than-expected proportion of advocacy groups mentioned in news articles with very high prominence (44%; χ(2) [1, N = 3118] = 27.4, p < .001), high prominence (34%; χ(2) [1, N = 3118] = 10.9, p < .001), and medium prominence (30%; χ(2) [1, N = 3118] = 7.3, p = .007), and in articles covering events with mixed (30%; χ(2) [1, N = 4387] = 10.0, p = .002) or positive (24%; χ(2) [1, N = 4387] = 26.1, p < .001) implications for tobacco control.CONCLUSIONS:
Australian tobacco control advocacy groups have a reasonable presence within the news discourse on tobacco control issues and so are likely to contribute to generating and shaping this discourse, particularly in relation to evolving and controversial issues.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Tabagismo
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Abandono do Hábito de Fumar
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Marketing Social
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Política de Saúde
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Promoção da Saúde
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Jornais como Assunto
Limite:
Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Oceania
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Am J Health Promot
Assunto da revista:
SAUDE PUBLICA
Ano de publicação:
2012
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Austrália