Debunking Sarah Palin: Mainstream news coverage of 'death panels'

Journalism

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 766-782

  Lawrence, Regina G ^a   Schafer, Matthew L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Death panels; health care reform; journalism; objectivity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863834905     PISSN: 14648849     EISSN: 17413001     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1464884911431389     Document Type: Review

References (64)

1. Alexa (2011) Top sites by category: News. Available at: http://www.alexa.com/topsites/category/Top/News
2. BankJ (2009) Palin vs. Obama: Death panels. Fact Check. Available at: http://www.factcheck.org/2009/08/palin-vs-obama-death-panels/
3. Bartels LM. Uninformed votes: Information effects in presidential elections. American Journal of Political Science. 1996 ; 40 (1). 194-230
4. Bennett WL. Toward a theory of press-state relations in the US. Journal of Communication. 1990 ; 40 (2). 103-125
5. Bennett WL, Iyengar S. A new era of minimal effects? The changing foundations of political communication. Journal of Communication. 2008 ; 58 (4). 707-731
6. Bennett WL, Lawrence RG, Livingston S When the Press Fails. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press ; 2007:
7. CNN/ORC (2009) Poll, 11-13 September. Available at: http://i2.cdn.turner. com/cnn/2009/images/09/14/rel14b2.pdf
8. Cook T Governing with the News. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press ; 2005:
9. Delli Carpini MX, Keeter S What Americans Know about Politics and Why It Matters. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press ; 1996:
10. The Economist (2010) 7 questions for Jay Rosen. Available at: http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2010/08/jay-rosen-media
11. Ettema JS, Glasser TL Custodians of Conscience. New York: Columbia University Press ; 1998:
12. Friedman S, Dunwoody S, Rogers C Scientists and Journalists: Reporting Science as News. New York: Free Press ; 1986:
13. Gilbert S, Eyal C, McCombs ME, Nicholas D. The state of the union address and press. Journalism Quarterly. 1980 ; 57 (4). 584-588
14. Graber D Processing Politics: Learning from Television in the Internet Age. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press ; 2001:
15. Hallin D, Mancini P Comparing Media Systems: Three Models of Media and Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ; 2004:
16. Hamilton JM, Lawrence RG. Bridging past and future. Journalism Studies. 2010 ; 11 (5). 683-699
17. HarsinJ (2008) The rumor bomb: On convergence culture and politics. Flow, 11December. Available at: http://flowtv.org/2008/12/the-rumor-bomb-on- convergence-culture-and-politics-jayson-harsin-american-university-of-paris/
18. HolanAD (2009) PolitiFact's lie of the year: 'Death panels'. PolitiFact, 18December. Available at: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2009/ dec/18/politifact-lie-year-death-panels
19. Jamieson KH, Capella JN Echo Chamber: Rush Limbaugh and the Conservative Media Establishment. New York: Oxford University Press ; 2009:
20. Jamieson KH, Waldman P The Press Effect: Politicians, Journalists, and the Stories that Shape the Political World. New York: Oxford University Press ; 2003:
21. Jenkins H Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide. New York: New York University Press ; 2006:
22. Jerit J, Barabas J. Bankrupt rhetoric: How misleading information affects knowledge about social security. Public Opinion Quarterly. 2006 ; 70 (3). 278-303
23. Johnson CK. Getting counsel helps the dying. Boston Globe. 2009 ;: 8
24. Jones AS Losing the News: The Future of the News that Feeds Democracy. New York: Oxford University Press ; 2009:
25. Katz E. And deliver us from segmentation. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. 1996 ; 546 (1). 22-33
26. Kovach B, Rosenstiel T Blur: How to Know What's True in the Age of Information Overload. New York: Bloomsbury ; 2010:
27. Kuklinski JH, Quirk PJ, Jerit J, Schwieder D, Rich RF. Misinformation and the currency of democratic citizenship. Journal of Politics. 2000 ; 62 (3). 790-816
28. Kunda Z. The case for motivated reasoning. Psychological Bulletin. 1990 ; 108 (3). 480-498
29. Lawrence RG The Politics of Force: Media and the Construction of Police Brutality. Berkeley: University of California Press ; 2000:
30. Lawrence RG Doing News Framing Analysis: Empirical and Theoretical Perspectives. D'Angelo P Kuypers JA, ed. New York: Routledge ; 2010: 265-385.
31. Lee KL. The effect of the internet on homogeneity of the media agenda: A test of the fragmentation thesis. Journalism & Mass Communications Quarterly. 2007 ; 84 (4). 745-760
32. McCombs ME. A look at agenda-setting: Past, present and future. Journalism Studies. 2005 ; 6 (4). 543-557
33. Manjoo F True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-fact Society. New York: Wiley ; 2008:
34. Michaels D, Monforton C. Manufacturing uncertainty: Contested science and the protection of the public's health and environment. American Journal of Public Health. 2005 ; 95: S39 - S48
35. Milner H Civic Literacy: How Informed Citizens Make Democracy Work. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England ; 2002:
36. MooneyC (2004) Think again: False objectivity in science reporting. Center for American Progress. Available at: http://www.americanprogress.org/ issues/2004/05/b67755.html
37. NBC/Wall Street Journal (2009) Poll, 15-17 August. Available at: http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/MSNBC/Sections/NEWS/NBC-WSJ-Poll.pdf
38. Nie NH, Miller DW, Golde S, Buter DM, Winneg K. The world wide web and the US political news market. American Journal of Political Science. 2010 ; 54 (2). 428-439
39. NyhanB (2009) 'Death panel' shaming works, but too late?August21. Available at: http://www.brendan-nyhan.com/blog/2009/08/death-panel-shaming- works-but-is-it-too-late.html
40. NyhanB (2010) Why the 'death panel' myth wouldn't die: Misinformation in the health care reform debate. The Forum8(1): Article 5. Available at: http://www-personal.umich.edu/∼bnyhan/nyhan-reifler.pdf
41. PalinS (2009) Statement on the current health care debate, 7August. Available at: http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note-id=113851103434
42. ParsonsCHookJ (2009) Obama takes a stand on healthcare. Los Angeles Times, 12August. Available at: http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/12/nation/ na-health-obama12/2
43. Pew Research Center (2009) Healthcare reform closely followed, much discussed, 20August. Available at: http://people-press.org/reports/pdf/537.pdf
44. Pew Research Center (2010a) How news happens-still, 11January. Available at: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1458/news-changing-media-baltimore
45. Pew Research Center (2010b) Americans spending more time following the news, 12September. http://people-press.org/2010/09/12/americans-spending-more- time-following-the-news/
46. Pew Research Center (2010c) State of the news media 2010. Available at: http://www.stateofthemedia.org/2010
47. Pingree RJ. Effects of unresolved factual disputes in the news on epistemic political efficacy. Journal of Communication. 2011 ; 61: 22-47
48. PolitiFact (2009) Sarah Palin falsely claims Barack Obama runs a 'death panel'. PolitiFact, 10August. Available at: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o- meter/statements/2009/aug/10/sarah-palin/sarah-palin-barack-obama-death-panel
49. Prasad M, Perrin AJ, Bezila K, et al. 'There must be a reason': Osama, Saddam, and inferred justification. Sociological Inquiry. 2009 ; 79 (2). 142-162
50. Project for Excellence in Journalism (2010) Six things to know about health care coverage: Opponents win the message wars. Available at: http://www.journalism.org/analysis-report/opponents-win-message-wars-0
51. Redlawsk DP. Hot cognition or cool consideration: Testing the effects of motivated reasoning on political decision making. Journal of Politics. 2002 ; 64: 1021-1044
52. Rieder R. Counting the spoons: Eternal vigilance is the price of covering national security and political campaigns. American Journalism Review. 2007 ; 29 (2). 4
53. Rolnicki TE, Tate CD, Taylor S Scholastic Journalism. 2007 ) Scholastic Journalism, 11th edn.Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell ; 2007:
54. RutenbergJCalmesJ (2009) False death panel rumor has some familiar roots. New York Times, August13. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/ health/policy/14panel.html
55. Sobieraj S, Berry JM. From incivility to outrage: Political discourse in blogs, talk radio, and cable news. Political Communication. 2011 ; 28 (1). 19-41
56. Sparrow B Uncertain Guardians: The News Media as a Political Institution. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press ; 1999:
57. StelterB (2010) Debunkers of fictions sift the net. New York Times. Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/technology/05snopes.html?src= me&ref=technology
58. Stroud NJ. Polarization and partisan selective exposure. Journal of Communication. 2010 ; 60 (3). 556-576
59. Sunstein CR Republic.Com. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press ; 2001:
60. Tuchman G Making News: A Study in the Construction of Reality. New York: Free Press ; 1978:
61. Van der Wurff R, Lauf E Print and Online Newspapers in Europe: A Comparative Analysis in 16 Countries. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis ; 2005:
62. WestP (2009) GOP rides wave of ire. Baltimore Sun, 16August. Available at: http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2009-08-16/news/0908150142-1-health-care- overhaul-care-issues-government-health
63. Wolfsfeld G Media and Political Conflict: News from the Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press ; 1997:
64. Selective Exposure to Communication. Zillmann D Bryant J, ed. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum ; 1985: