11:30 -12:20 pm: Contributed Paper Session 3 Copyright (c) 2013 University of Tennessee, Knoxville All rights reserved. http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2012/session3 Recent Events in 11:30 -12:20 pm: Contributed Paper Session 3 en-us Wed, 15 May 2013 23:01:11 PDT 3600 Horatio Alger is Dying: Has U. S. TV News Noticed? http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2012/session3/3 http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2012/session3/3 Terms such as “rags to riches,” “Horatio Alger,“ and pulling one’s self up by one’s “own bootstraps” are important to American self-identity. Several analyses, however, show social and economic mobility in the United States is in trouble. It is less frequent than in past generations, the U. S. now trails many nations in measures of movement, and one mechanism of mobility, education, is losing its effectiveness in that regard.

The researcher conducted a content analysis regarding social mobility terms in transcripts from NBC Nightly News, CBS Evening News, ABC World News, MSNBC and Fox News. By various measures U. S. TV news almost exclusively presented unchallenged the mythology of mobility, rather than any debunking of it. What little debunking occurred largely was on MSNBC. Both MSNBC and Fox frequently presented social and economic mobility (and persons who are examples of it) in partisan terms, while network TV newscasts did not.

]]> Mark D Harmon Propinquity and News Coverage: The U.S. As Seen in Latin America http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2012/session3/2 http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2012/session3/2 Propinquity theory is used to frame a pilot study examining the tone and frequency of U.S. coverage in Latin American newspaper websites. Results of a survey of U.S. news stories appearing in Latin American newspaper websites (n=211) did not find significant correlation between the tone of coverage of the U.S. and the frequency of that coverage. Results suggest, however, that repeating the survey with a larger sample might produce significant findings.

]]> Charles Primm The Implementation of the Liberal Model of Journalism in Croatia: Exploring the Influence of Cultural Values and the Level of Democracy http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2012/session3/1 http://trace.tennessee.edu/ccisymposium/2012/session3/1 The purpose of this study is to evaluate the implementation of the liberal model of journalism in Croatia by exploring the influence of cultural values and the level of democracy acceptance on attitudes and perceptions towards the news program on the Croatian Public Television station, owned by the state, and the commercial television station Nova TV, owned by an American corporation.

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