Analyzed the content of four major U.S. newspapers, 1992 through 2001, in terms of their coverage of conflicts of interest in science. Types of conflict of interest: financial, professional and personal. Examples include the relationship between research institutions and the tobacco industry.
Features the framing of articles, sources used by reporters and the differences between genetics as they relate to food and to medicine. Found that scientists and medical issues were much more likely to be framed as progressive than were articles on food or ones in which government officials were quoted. Also analyzed articles pertaining to protests and demonstrations between 2000 and 2001.
