Stephen J Farnsworth
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1320779 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Stephen J Farnsworth |
| NOMBRES | Stephen J |
| APELLIDO | Farnsworth |
| FIRMA | FARNSWORTH S J |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Mary Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8864-6698 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 78 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2019 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Late Night with Trump
Mass media and policy-making
An Extended Presidential Honeymoon? Coverage of B arack O bama in the N ew Y ork T imes during 2009 and 2010
Content analysis of front page N ew Y ork T imes stories during the first and second years of the B arack O bama presidency revealed news coverage that was far more positive in tone than the norm for recent U . S . presidents, particularly with respect to foreign policy coverage. While coverage of O bama was somewhat less positive during 2010 when compared to 2009, the O bama findings overall reveal a much longer honeymoon than seen in the past. …
News Coverage of New Presidents in The New York Times , 1981‐2009
Content analysis of front‐page The New York Times stories during the first year of the Barack Obama presidency revealed news coverage that was far more positive in tone than that received during the first year of the Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush presidencies. Overall, the Obama findings reveal a media honeymoon in that influential newspaper, a sharp contrast from first‐year coverage of other presidents during the modern era of …
Authors’ Response
Recently, P olitics & P olicy published an article presenting our findings that reveal President Barack Obama received something of a media honeymoon in T he N ew Y ork T imes , a sharp contrast from that influential newspaper's first‐year coverage of R eagan, C linton, and G eorge W . B ush. Our findings triggered a thoughtful column concerning political coverage by the T imes’ public editor, A rthur S . B risbane, which in turn led to extensive…
Scientific Assessments of Climate Change Information in News and Entertainment Media
An elite survey of members of the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union conducted in 2007 reveals that the vast majority of climate scientists positively assess both national print news reports and Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth as informative, with lower grades being assessed on climate change content that appeared on network and cable television news as well as in Michael Crichton’s novel State of Fear. Multiv…
The Structure of Scientific Opinion on Climate Change
Over the past several decades, environmental issues have become a steadily more significant part of political discourse in the United States and around the world. Since the 1990s, politicians, journalists, and the public have focused increasingly on global climate change, the possibility that human activities are creating significant increases in planetary temperatures. Throughout these debates, the comments of technical experts have played an im…
The Contemporary Presidency
Content analysis of network evening news coverage during the first year of the Barack Obama presidency revealed coverage that was far more positive in tone than comparable news reports from the first years of the Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush presidencies. Both domestic and international policy evaluations of the Obama presidency were more positive in tone than those of the last three presidents to take office during partisan tr…
Network Television’s Coverage of the 2008 Presidential Election
Content analysis of network evening news coverage of the 2008 presidential election revealed a slight increase in the amount of coverage and a decline in the coverage of policy matters compared to 4 years earlier. Barack Obama received the most positive coverage recorded for any major party nominee on network television since the Center for Media and Public Affairs started analyzing election news content in 1988. The tonal gap between the Democra…
The International Two-Step Flow in Foreign News
Content analysis of U.S. and Canadian television news from 2004 to 2006 reveals considerable similarities in the volume of news coverage of President George W. Bush and the Iraq War on both sides of the border. Indeed, these data suggest the possibility of an international two-step news flow, where changes in the volume of coverage on NBC frequently were reflected in the news coverage on CBC and CTV during the following days. It is suggested here…
Bush's War
Images, Issues, and Attacks
Local Television News and Campaign 2000
Content analysis of local newscasts during Campaign 2000 reveals that stations that participated in two civil society efforts to increase the quality of news coverage devoted far more attention to coverage that included more extensive discussion of issues than did stations in the same market that did not participate in either program. Treatment stations as a group provided more information regarding the background of issues, more discussion of th…
The 2004 New Hampshire Democratic Primary and Network News
Content-coded network newscasts are used to examine the relationship between news coverage and the daily New Hampshire poll standings of the four major Democratic presidential candidates in the weeks before the 2004 primary. The study finds powerful network news effects, particularly with respect to horse-race reports on which candidate was gaining or losing ground, for John Kerry, Howard Dean, Wesley Clark, and John Edwards. The influence of net…
The Mediated Congress
Content analysis of 6,480 front page stories in the New York Times and the Washington Post that deal with the federal government in 1981, 1993, and 2001 reveals a clear focus on the executive branch at the expense of the legislative branch. Capitol Hill is treated more negatively than the White House during these three years. The content analysis also reveals some evidence of partisan disparities in congressional coverage, particularly for the Ne…
Reporting on Two Presidencies
Personal coverage of President Bush during 2001 on network television and in six U.S. newspapers became far more positive after September 11, 2001, with the largest gains found in network television coverage. Coverage of the rest of the Bush administration, in contrast, became distinctly more negative after the terrorist attacks. The vast majority of the executive branch coverage both before and after the terrorist attacks in all media outlets fo…
Increasing Candidate-Centered Televised Discourse
Content analysis of local television newscasts during Election 2000 showed marked differences between stations participating in two news improvement projects and those stations that did not participate in the “5/30” and “Best Practices” initiatives. Stations participating in those projects offered more news coverage overall and more candidate-centered coverage than did their in-market competitors. Stations enrolling in either of those programs al…
Source Material
Content analysis of ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news programs during the first years of the presidencies of Ronald Reagan (1981), Bill Clinton (1993), and George W. Bush (2001) revealed a heavy focus on the executive branch rather than the legislative and judicial branches. The negative tone of network news coverage was very similar across the three presidents and their administrations. Coverage of presidents in their first year in office consisten…
Internet use and the 2000 presidential election
Political Support in a Frustrated America
Public confidence and trust in government is low these days. Farnsworth pinpoints this disappointment to shifting expectations of what, exactly, government should do. Politicians were once expected to maintain economic growth, but in our post-scarcity era most citizens expect them to provide services - such as welfare or environmental -that are often contentious. Enlarging the scope of local political empowerment will increase public support by m…
The Manchester Union Leader's Influence in the 1996 New Hampshire Republican Primary
Content-coded network newscasts are used to examine the relationship between news and editorial coverage of candidates by New Hampshire's largest newspaper and the daily New Hampsbire poll standings of the leading 1996 Republican candidates in the weeks before the primary. The Manchester Union Leader's news and editorial coverage powerfully influenced the poll standings of Patrick Buchanan, the paper's preferred candidate. News coverage of the ho…
The Manchester Union Leader's Influence in the 1996 New Hampshire Republican Primary
Content‐coded network newscasts are used to examine the relationship between news and editorial coverage of candidates by New Hampshire's largest newspaper and the daily New Hampsbire poll standings of the leading 1996 Republican candidates in the weeks before the primary. The Manchester Union Leader's news and editorial coverage powerfully influenced the poll standings of Patrick Buchanan, the paper's preferred candidate. News coverage of the ho…
Congress And Citizen Discontent
This study, which uses a national survey conducted by Hibbing and Theiss-Morse, finds that evaluations of the membership of Congress and of one’s own representative in the U.S. House are both tied closely to issues of procedural justice and, in particular, to the perceived fairness of Congress and to the perceived responsiveness of the legislative branch to the citizenry. The extent to which a citizen desires parochial legislative behavior is of …
The 2000 New Hampshire Democratic Primary and Network News
Content-coded network newscasts were used to examine the relationship between news coverage and the daily New Hampshire poll standings of Al Gore and Bill Bradley, the two major Democratic presidential candidates, in the weeks before the primary. The study found powerful network news effects, particularly with respect to "horse race" reports on which candidate gained and fell back but also with respect to televised evaluations of more substantive…
The 1996 New Hampshire Republican Primary and Network News
Content‐coded network newscasts are used to examine the relationship between news coverage and the daily New Hampshire poll standings of the leading 1996 Republican candidates in the weeks before the primary. Negative network news evaluations of Patrick Buchanan actually led to improvements in his tracking poll standings in subsequent days, indicating strong hostility to national media perspectives among many New Hampshire Republicans sympathetic…
Internet use and the 2000 presidential election
The 2004 New Hampshire Democratic Primary and Network News
Content-coded network newscasts are used to examine the relationship between news coverage and the daily New Hampshire poll standings of the four major Democratic presidential candidates in the weeks before the 2004 primary. The study finds powerful network news effects, particularly with respect to horse-race reports on which candidate was gaining or losing ground, for John Kerry, Howard Dean, Wesley Clark, and John Edwards. The influence of net…
The Contemporary Presidency
Content analysis of network evening news coverage during the first year of the Barack Obama presidency revealed coverage that was far more positive in tone than comparable news reports from the first years of the Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush presidencies. Both domestic and international policy evaluations of the Obama presidency were more positive in tone than those of the last three presidents to take office during partisan tr…
Congress And Citizen Discontent
This study, which uses a national survey conducted by Hibbing and Theiss-Morse, finds that evaluations of the membership of Congress and of one’s own representative in the U.S. House are both tied closely to issues of procedural justice and, in particular, to the perceived fairness of Congress and to the perceived responsiveness of the legislative branch to the citizenry. The extent to which a citizen desires parochial legislative behavior is of …
No Small-Town Poll
Content-coded network newscasts were used to determine the importance of news coverage to the poll standings of leading candidates in the 1992 New Hampshire Democratic Primary. It was found that “horse-race” coverage mattered much more than reporting on more substantive matters, such as a candidate's capacity to be president. This was particularly true for Bill Clinton, who suffered an “antibandwagon” effect from the predominantly negative covera…
The International Two-Step Flow in Foreign News
Content analysis of U.S. and Canadian television news from 2004 to 2006 reveals considerable similarities in the volume of news coverage of President George W. Bush and the Iraq War on both sides of the border. Indeed, these data suggest the possibility of an international two-step news flow, where changes in the volume of coverage on NBC frequently were reflected in the news coverage on CBC and CTV during the following days. It is suggested here…
Federal Frustration, State Satisfaction? Voters and Decentralized Governmental Power
An analysis using the 1996 American National Elections Study and measures of state government responsiveness and performance finds that feelings about one's state government are largely ideological in orientation and have little to do with any perceived failures on the part of the federal government or the actual performance or perceived responsiveness of the respondent's state government. National economic performance was the only non-ideologica…
The Structure of Scientific Opinion on Climate Change
Over the past several decades, environmental issues have become a steadily more significant part of political discourse in the United States and around the world. Since the 1990s, politicians, journalists, and the public have focused increasingly on global climate change, the possibility that human activities are creating significant increases in planetary temperatures. Throughout these debates, the comments of technical experts have played an im…
Increasing Candidate-Centered Televised Discourse
Content analysis of local television newscasts during Election 2000 showed marked differences between stations participating in two news improvement projects and those stations that did not participate in the “5/30” and “Best Practices” initiatives. Stations participating in those projects offered more news coverage overall and more candidate-centered coverage than did their in-market competitors. Stations enrolling in either of those programs al…
Network Television’s Coverage of the 2008 Presidential Election
Content analysis of network evening news coverage of the 2008 presidential election revealed a slight increase in the amount of coverage and a decline in the coverage of policy matters compared to 4 years earlier. Barack Obama received the most positive coverage recorded for any major party nominee on network television since the Center for Media and Public Affairs started analyzing election news content in 1988. The tonal gap between the Democra…
The Mediated Congress
Content analysis of 6,480 front page stories in the New York Times and the Washington Post that deal with the federal government in 1981, 1993, and 2001 reveals a clear focus on the executive branch at the expense of the legislative branch. Capitol Hill is treated more negatively than the White House during these three years. The content analysis also reveals some evidence of partisan disparities in congressional coverage, particularly for the Ne…
Source Material
Content analysis of ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news programs during the first years of the presidencies of Ronald Reagan (1981), Bill Clinton (1993), and George W. Bush (2001) revealed a heavy focus on the executive branch rather than the legislative and judicial branches. The negative tone of network news coverage was very similar across the three presidents and their administrations. Coverage of presidents in their first year in office consisten…
Scientific Assessments of Climate Change Information in News and Entertainment Media
An elite survey of members of the American Meteorological Society and the American Geophysical Union conducted in 2007 reveals that the vast majority of climate scientists positively assess both national print news reports and Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth as informative, with lower grades being assessed on climate change content that appeared on network and cable television news as well as in Michael Crichton’s novel State of Fear. Multiv…
The Manchester Union Leader's Influence in the 1996 New Hampshire Republican Primary
Content‐coded network newscasts are used to examine the relationship between news and editorial coverage of candidates by New Hampshire's largest newspaper and the daily New Hampsbire poll standings of the leading 1996 Republican candidates in the weeks before the primary. The Manchester Union Leader's news and editorial coverage powerfully influenced the poll standings of Patrick Buchanan, the paper's preferred candidate. News coverage of the ho…
The 1996 New Hampshire Republican Primary and Network News
Content‐coded network newscasts are used to examine the relationship between news coverage and the daily New Hampshire poll standings of the leading 1996 Republican candidates in the weeks before the primary. Negative network news evaluations of Patrick Buchanan actually led to improvements in his tracking poll standings in subsequent days, indicating strong hostility to national media perspectives among many New Hampshire Republicans sympathetic…
An Extended Presidential Honeymoon? Coverage of B arack O bama in the N ew Y ork T imes during 2009 and 2010
Content analysis of front page N ew Y ork T imes stories during the first and second years of the B arack O bama presidency revealed news coverage that was far more positive in tone than the norm for recent U . S . presidents, particularly with respect to foreign policy coverage. While coverage of O bama was somewhat less positive during 2010 when compared to 2009, the O bama findings overall reveal a much longer honeymoon than seen in the past. …
News Coverage of New Presidents in The New York Times , 1981‐2009
Content analysis of front‐page The New York Times stories during the first year of the Barack Obama presidency revealed news coverage that was far more positive in tone than that received during the first year of the Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush presidencies. Overall, the Obama findings reveal a media honeymoon in that influential newspaper, a sharp contrast from first‐year coverage of other presidents during the modern era of …
Campaigning Against Government in the Old Dominion
James S. Gilmore III (R) credited his election in 1997 as governor of Virginia to his attacks upon the size and taxation authority of state government, a twist on recent Republican attacks upon the size and taxation authority of the national government. Gilmore's plan to eliminate the personal property tax for nearly all cars and trucks was also seen as the key to his victory by independent analysts and by Virginia legislators. This quantitative …
Patterns of Political Support
This paper examines political support toward Congress and the presidency. With data made available by Hibbing and Theiss-Morse (1995), I extend the work of Easton and Dennis (1969), demonstrating that there are distinct patterns of political support that correspond to diffuse support and to specific support for particular branches of the national government. The findings also support the arguments of Alwin et al. (1991) and others regarding gener…
No Small-Town Poll
Content-coded network newscasts were used to determine the importance of news coverage to the poll standings of leading candidates in the 1992 New Hampshire Democratic Primary. It was found that “horse-race” coverage mattered much more than reporting on more substantive matters, such as a candidate's capacity to be president. This was particularly true for Bill Clinton, who suffered an “antibandwagon” effect from the predominantly negative covera…
Federal Frustration, State Satisfaction? Voters and Decentralized Governmental Power
An analysis using the 1996 American National Elections Study and measures of state government responsiveness and performance finds that feelings about one's state government are largely ideological in orientation and have little to do with any perceived failures on the part of the federal government or the actual performance or perceived responsiveness of the respondent's state government. National economic performance was the only non-ideologica…
Patterns of Political Support
This paper examines political support toward Congress and the presidency. With data made available by Hibbing and Theiss-Morse (1995), I extend the work of Easton and Dennis (1969), demonstrating that there are distinct patterns of political support that correspond to diffuse support and to specific support for particular branches of the national government. The findings also support the arguments of Alwin et al. (1991) and others regarding gener…
The 1996 New Hampshire Republican Primary and Network News
Content‐coded network newscasts are used to examine the relationship between news coverage and the daily New Hampshire poll standings of the leading 1996 Republican candidates in the weeks before the primary. Negative network news evaluations of Patrick Buchanan actually led to improvements in his tracking poll standings in subsequent days, indicating strong hostility to national media perspectives among many New Hampshire Republicans sympathetic…
Campaigning Against Government in the Old Dominion
James S. Gilmore III (R) credited his election in 1997 as governor of Virginia to his attacks upon the size and taxation authority of state government, a twist on recent Republican attacks upon the size and taxation authority of the national government. Gilmore's plan to eliminate the personal property tax for nearly all cars and trucks was also seen as the key to his victory by independent analysts and by Virginia legislators. This quantitative …
Political Support in a Frustrated America
Public confidence and trust in government is low these days. Farnsworth pinpoints this disappointment to shifting expectations of what, exactly, government should do. Politicians were once expected to maintain economic growth, but in our post-scarcity era most citizens expect them to provide services - such as welfare or environmental -that are often contentious. Enlarging the scope of local political empowerment will increase public support by m…
The Manchester Union Leader's Influence in the 1996 New Hampshire Republican Primary
Content-coded network newscasts are used to examine the relationship between news and editorial coverage of candidates by New Hampshire's largest newspaper and the daily New Hampsbire poll standings of the leading 1996 Republican candidates in the weeks before the primary. The Manchester Union Leader's news and editorial coverage powerfully influenced the poll standings of Patrick Buchanan, the paper's preferred candidate. News coverage of the ho…
The Manchester Union Leader's Influence in the 1996 New Hampshire Republican Primary
Content‐coded network newscasts are used to examine the relationship between news and editorial coverage of candidates by New Hampshire's largest newspaper and the daily New Hampsbire poll standings of the leading 1996 Republican candidates in the weeks before the primary. The Manchester Union Leader's news and editorial coverage powerfully influenced the poll standings of Patrick Buchanan, the paper's preferred candidate. News coverage of the ho…
Congress And Citizen Discontent
This study, which uses a national survey conducted by Hibbing and Theiss-Morse, finds that evaluations of the membership of Congress and of one’s own representative in the U.S. House are both tied closely to issues of procedural justice and, in particular, to the perceived fairness of Congress and to the perceived responsiveness of the legislative branch to the citizenry. The extent to which a citizen desires parochial legislative behavior is of …
The 2000 New Hampshire Democratic Primary and Network News
Content-coded network newscasts were used to examine the relationship between news coverage and the daily New Hampshire poll standings of Al Gore and Bill Bradley, the two major Democratic presidential candidates, in the weeks before the primary. The study found powerful network news effects, particularly with respect to "horse race" reports on which candidate gained and fell back but also with respect to televised evaluations of more substantive…
Increasing Candidate-Centered Televised Discourse
Content analysis of local television newscasts during Election 2000 showed marked differences between stations participating in two news improvement projects and those stations that did not participate in the “5/30” and “Best Practices” initiatives. Stations participating in those projects offered more news coverage overall and more candidate-centered coverage than did their in-market competitors. Stations enrolling in either of those programs al…
Source Material
Content analysis of ABC, CBS, and NBC evening news programs during the first years of the presidencies of Ronald Reagan (1981), Bill Clinton (1993), and George W. Bush (2001) revealed a heavy focus on the executive branch rather than the legislative and judicial branches. The negative tone of network news coverage was very similar across the three presidents and their administrations. Coverage of presidents in their first year in office consisten…
Internet use and the 2000 presidential election
Local Television News and Campaign 2000
Content analysis of local newscasts during Campaign 2000 reveals that stations that participated in two civil society efforts to increase the quality of news coverage devoted far more attention to coverage that included more extensive discussion of issues than did stations in the same market that did not participate in either program. Treatment stations as a group provided more information regarding the background of issues, more discussion of th…
The 2004 New Hampshire Democratic Primary and Network News
Content-coded network newscasts are used to examine the relationship between news coverage and the daily New Hampshire poll standings of the four major Democratic presidential candidates in the weeks before the 2004 primary. The study finds powerful network news effects, particularly with respect to horse-race reports on which candidate was gaining or losing ground, for John Kerry, Howard Dean, Wesley Clark, and John Edwards. The influence of net…
The Mediated Congress
Content analysis of 6,480 front page stories in the New York Times and the Washington Post that deal with the federal government in 1981, 1993, and 2001 reveals a clear focus on the executive branch at the expense of the legislative branch. Capitol Hill is treated more negatively than the White House during these three years. The content analysis also reveals some evidence of partisan disparities in congressional coverage, particularly for the Ne…
Reporting on Two Presidencies
Personal coverage of President Bush during 2001 on network television and in six U.S. newspapers became far more positive after September 11, 2001, with the largest gains found in network television coverage. Coverage of the rest of the Bush administration, in contrast, became distinctly more negative after the terrorist attacks. The vast majority of the executive branch coverage both before and after the terrorist attacks in all media outlets fo…
Bush's War
Images, Issues, and Attacks
The International Two-Step Flow in Foreign News
Content analysis of U.S. and Canadian television news from 2004 to 2006 reveals considerable similarities in the volume of news coverage of President George W. Bush and the Iraq War on both sides of the border. Indeed, these data suggest the possibility of an international two-step news flow, where changes in the volume of coverage on NBC frequently were reflected in the news coverage on CBC and CTV during the following days. It is suggested here…
The Structure of Scientific Opinion on Climate Change
Over the past several decades, environmental issues have become a steadily more significant part of political discourse in the United States and around the world. Since the 1990s, politicians, journalists, and the public have focused increasingly on global climate change, the possibility that human activities are creating significant increases in planetary temperatures. Throughout these debates, the comments of technical experts have played an im…
The Contemporary Presidency
Content analysis of network evening news coverage during the first year of the Barack Obama presidency revealed coverage that was far more positive in tone than comparable news reports from the first years of the Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush presidencies. Both domestic and international policy evaluations of the Obama presidency were more positive in tone than those of the last three presidents to take office during partisan tr…
Network Television’s Coverage of the 2008 Presidential Election
Content analysis of network evening news coverage of the 2008 presidential election revealed a slight increase in the amount of coverage and a decline in the coverage of policy matters compared to 4 years earlier. Barack Obama received the most positive coverage recorded for any major party nominee on network television since the Center for Media and Public Affairs started analyzing election news content in 1988. The tonal gap between the Democra…
News Coverage of New Presidents in The New York Times , 1981‐2009
Content analysis of front‐page The New York Times stories during the first year of the Barack Obama presidency revealed news coverage that was far more positive in tone than that received during the first year of the Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, and George W. Bush presidencies. Overall, the Obama findings reveal a media honeymoon in that influential newspaper, a sharp contrast from first‐year coverage of other presidents during the modern era of …
Authors’ Response
Recently, P olitics & P olicy published an article presenting our findings that reveal President Barack Obama received something of a media honeymoon in T he N ew Y ork T imes , a sharp contrast from that influential newspaper's first‐year coverage of R eagan, C linton, and G eorge W . B ush. Our findings triggered a thoughtful column concerning political coverage by the T imes’ public editor, A rthur S . B risbane, which in turn led to extensive…
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