This chapter examines how nightly cable news programming compared and contrasted these movements in coverage. It employs both quantitative content analysis of cross-cable news coverage and qualitative semantic network analysis of the key themes emanating from coverage on Fox News in particular. The findings highlight how conservative media legitimation of the Tea Party was based on classic protest paradigm delegitimation frames toward Occupy Wall Street and introduces the concept of inverse echo framing to describe how this was accomplished.
Do audiences of different media sources have different value orientations? What are the value preferences of American partisans who say they watch cable news programs that are generally considered to be favored by members of the opposite party? What are the implications of the answers to these questions for our understanding of how people engage in selective exposure? These are just a few of the questions addressed in his latest study using data from the 2006 Cooperative Congressional Election Study (CCES). This study was presented at the 2017 APSA Annual Meeting in San Francisco (available upon request). It is currently under revision for journal submission.
While the Hostile Media Phenomenon has been well-documented in the literature, do Americans think conspiratorially about the news media? If so, is this especially true in terms of media associated with the opposite political party to one's party identification? This project, in collaboration with Dr. Rebecca Glazier, focuses on the roles of partisan group identity, presidential support and media use in terms of conspiratorial thinking generally as well as applied to media specifically.