DOI
https://doi.org/10.18666/JASM-2015-V7-I4-5982
Abstract
This study examined the prevalence, content, and tone of front page intercollegiate athletic coverage within daily sampling of five major newspapers during the 2011 calendar year through a theoretical lens of framing as a theory of media effects. Analysis reveals broad media presentation of an industry characterized by lavish spending and widespread corruption in football and men's basketball with roughly 98% of the college sport-coverage word count devoted to men's sport with 73.7% covering football and 23.8% covering men's basketball with dominant emergent themes including financial exorbitance, scandal, athlete compensation, conference realignment, conflict between athletics & the academy, athlete entitlement, athlete discipline problems, coach power, and hyper-competitiveness.
Recommended Citation
Weight, Erianne A. and Cooper, Coyte G.
(2015)
"Framing the Industry: Front-Page Coverage of Intercollegiate Athletics in Five Major Newspapers,"
Journal of Applied Sport Management: Vol. 7
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Iss.
4.
https://doi.org/10.18666/JASM-2015-V7-I4-5982
Available at:
https://trace.tennessee.edu/jasm/vol7/iss4/11