Abstract
Labor leaders contend newspaper coverage of unions is unjustifiably negative and is usually fixated on conflict and corruption. While this attitude is broadly shared across the union spectrum, there has been little actual objective analysis of labor news reporting to substantiate or discredit the common belief. In an attempt to assess the accuracy of labors claim, a ten-year content analysis of industrial relations coverage in the Chicago Tribune was conducted. Unlike conventional media studies of organized labor, the Tribune analysis is an attempt to define and quantify the of news coverage on the basis of multiple content variables.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 385-407 |
Number of pages | 23 |
Journal | Labor Studies Journal |
Volume | 34 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Sep 2009 |
Keywords
- Labor movement
- Labor organization
- Labor union
- Media analysis
- Media bias
- Organized labor
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Industrial relations
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- Sociology and Political Science