Climate of scepticism: US newspaper coverage of the science of climate change
Abstract
This two-part study integrates a quantitative review of one year of US newspaper coverage of climate science with a qualitative, comparative analysis of media-created themes and frames using a social constructivist approach. In addition to an examination of newspaper articles, this paper includes a reflexive comparison with attendant wire stories and scientific texts. Special attention is given to articles constructed with and framed by rhetoric emphasising uncertainty, controversy, and climate scepticism.
- Publication:
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Global Environmental Change
- Pub Date:
- January 2005
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2005GEC....15..338A
- Keywords:
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- Climate change;
- US newspapers;
- Wire services;
- Framing;
- Sceptic counter-movement