FACES IN THE NEWS - NETWORK TELEVISION-NEWS COVERAGE OF HURRICANE HUGO AND THE LOMA-PRIETA EARTHQUAKE

Authors
WALTERS LM HORNIG S
Citation
Lm. Walters et S. Hornig, FACES IN THE NEWS - NETWORK TELEVISION-NEWS COVERAGE OF HURRICANE HUGO AND THE LOMA-PRIETA EARTHQUAKE, Journal of broadcasting & electronic media, 37(2), 1993, pp. 219-232
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Communication,"Film, Radio, Television
Journal title
Journal of broadcasting & electronic media → ACNP
ISSN journal
08838151
Volume
37
Issue
2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
219 - 232
Database
ISI
SICI code
0883-8151(1993)37:2<219:FITN-N>2.0.ZU;2-3
Abstract
This study investigates the sourcing patterns characteristic of networ k television coverage ot two natural disasters occurring within weeks of each other in the fall of 1989, Hurricane Hugo and the Loma Prieta earthquake. These results are compared to those from an earlier study of newspaper coverage of the same two events to make possible a cross- disaster, cross-media analysis of the way source utilization contribut es to the social construction of disasters as news events.