Identifier
etd-07022014-132348
Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Mass Communication
Document Type
Dissertation
Abstract
This dissertation examines how institutional, individual, and situational variables work to influence the volume of national broadcast and cable television news coverage members of the 109th, 110th, 111th, and 112th U.S. Houses of Representatives received. Analysis combines public data on House structure, member characteristics, member effort, and member circumstances with original computer-aided content analysis of the 38,430 transcripts in which members spoke and the 243,205 statements members made on ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC between January 3, 2005 and January 3, 2013, the full terms of these four congresses. The results presented in this dissertation yield important information about which House members are most and least successful in garnering news coverage and how the effects of specific institutional, individual, and situational variables vary across different news organizations and across news organizations type. Implications for citizens, Congress, and democracy are discussed.
Date
2014
Document Availability at the Time of Submission
Release the entire work immediately for access worldwide.
Recommended Citation
Padgett, Jeremy, "Predictors of National Broadcast and Cable Television News Coverage of the Members of the U.S. House of Representatives" (2014). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 2641.
https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/2641
Committee Chair
Dunaway, Johanna
DOI
10.31390/gradschool_dissertations.2641