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Issue Advocacy and Traditional News Content: A Study of the Impact of Marketplace Advocacy on Local Television News Media

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Despite the abundance of research in the field of agenda setting, particularly the recent emphasis on how news media agendas are constructed, issue advocacy advertising has received little attention as a potential influence on either the media or the public’s agenda. This is surprising, given the very nature of issue advocacy campaigns involves the communication of often-controversial opinions in an effort to sway public sentiment or generate support. This study expands the intermedia agenda setting literature by examining the agenda setting function of issue advocacy campaigns. Specifically, the study focused on an issue advertising campaign by the coal industry and its impact on television news coverage. The study provides initial evidence that issue advertising may play an important role in shaping the media’s agenda. While the correlation between issue advertising at time 1 and the television news agenda at time 2 was moderately strong (+.536), the Spearman correlation coefficient between these time periods exceeded the Rozelle-Campbell baseline statistic, suggesting a potentially dynamic relationship between issue advertising and the television news agenda.

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Miller, Barbara. "Issue Advocacy and Traditional News Content: A Study of the Impact of Marketplace Advocacy on Local Television News Media" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Dresden International Congress Centre, Dresden, Germany, Online <PDF>. 2008-08-17 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p92256_index.html>

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Miller, B. M. "Issue Advocacy and Traditional News Content: A Study of the Impact of Marketplace Advocacy on Local Television News Media" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Dresden International Congress Centre, Dresden, Germany Online <PDF> Retrieved 2008-08-17 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p92256_index.html

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Abstract: Despite the abundance of research in the field of agenda setting, particularly the recent emphasis on how news media agendas are constructed, issue advocacy advertising has received little attention as a potential influence on either the media or the public’s agenda. This is surprising, given the very nature of issue advocacy campaigns involves the communication of often-controversial opinions in an effort to sway public sentiment or generate support. This study expands the intermedia agenda setting literature by examining the agenda setting function of issue advocacy campaigns. Specifically, the study focused on an issue advertising campaign by the coal industry and its impact on television news coverage. The study provides initial evidence that issue advertising may play an important role in shaping the media’s agenda. While the correlation between issue advertising at time 1 and the television news agenda at time 2 was moderately strong (+.536), the Spearman correlation coefficient between these time periods exceeded the Rozelle-Campbell baseline statistic, suggesting a potentially dynamic relationship between issue advertising and the television news agenda.

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Issue Advocacy and Traditional News Content 1 Since the original efforts of McCombs and Shaw (1972) the agenda of the news media has been the focus of an abundance of academic research. Agenda setting theory promulgates the notion that while the media do not tell the public what to think they do influence what they think about. Nevertheless the media do not operate in a vacuum. Rather there are numerous forces that mediate the impact of agenda setting (Turk
9-24. West Virginia Office of Miners' Health Safety and Training (2003). WV Coal Mining Facts. Retrieved October 31 2005 from http://www.wvminesafety.org/wvcoalfacts.htm West Virginia University Bureau of Business and Economic Research (2000). Beckley- Bluefield Region Outlook. Forecast: 1999-2004. Retrieved October 31 2005 from http://www.bber.wvu.edu/eo/wveo_2000/beckblue_2000/beckblue.pdf. Winter James P. and Eyal C.H. (1981). Agenda Setting for the Civil Rights Issue. Public Opinion Quarterly 45 376-383. World Coal Institute (2002). Industry as a Partner for Sustainable Development. Putney London: Campbridge House. Retrieved August


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