MEDIA ANALYSIS

Media Analysis: International Politics

Media Analysis: International Politics

Introduction

Global heating has been a well recognized ecological topic in the joined States for the past ten years, even though scientists had recognised it as a promise difficulty years before in 1896. We find debate about the topic in the joined States media treatment while controversy amidst the most of researchers is rare. The role that media plays in constructing the norms and ideas in society are researched to understand how they socially construct global warming and other environmental issues. To recognise if the U.S. Media presents a biased outlook of global heating, the following are considered 1) the theoretical viewpoint of newspapers and the natural environment; 2) scientific overview and annals of international warming; 3) media treatment of global heating, and 4) study outcome from the content analysis of three nations' newspaper items and two worldwide scientific periodicals made in 2000 with evaluation of these nations finances, commerce, and environments. In deduction, our study illustrates that the U.S. with differing industries, predominantly overridden by the fossil fuel industry, in evaluation to New Zealand and Finland has a significant influence on the media treatment of international warming. The U.S's media states that global heating is contentious and theoretical, yet the other two countries portray the article that is routinely discovered in the worldwide technical journals. Therefore, newspapers, acting as one driving force, is supplying citizens with piecemeal data that is necessary to consider the social, ecological and political situation of the homeland and world.

Media and the Environment

Without media coverage it is unlikely that an important problem will either enter the arena of public discourse or become part of political issues. As previously stated, most of us depend on the media to help make sense of the deluge of information presented to us, especially information about environmental risks, technologies, and initiatives (Hannigan, 1995). Media is key to forming a framework for global warming, as well as keeping this important problem out of the public discourse. As documented by Schudon (1982): "The power of newspapers lies not only (and not even primarily) in its power to affirm things to be factual, but in the power to supply the pattern in which the declaration appears. News in a newspaper or on television has a relationship to the "real world", not only in content but in form; that is, in the way the world is incorporated into unquestionable and unnoticed conventions of narrations, and then transfigured no longer for discussion, but as a premise of any convention at all."

Just as Kuhn (1996) states that changing the perspective or dominant paradigm changes the picture sketched by the empirical evidence, the transfer of information from media to individuals also changes the picture of reality. Considerable evidence since the 1970's have shown that journalists playa key role in shaping our picture of the world as they go about their daily task of choosing and reporting the news (Bryant and Zillmann, 1986). According to Schiller (1973), the American media mangers ...