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    35. Magazine coverage of pesticide issues : the controversies, the concern, the claimsmakers

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Miller, M. Mark (author) and Riechert, Bonnie P. (author)
    Format:
    Conference paper
    Publication Date:
    1994
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 97 Document Number: C07848
    Notes:
    James F. Evans Collection; also presented at the Media and the Environment Conference, Reno, NV, April 7-9, 1994, Mimeographed, 1994. 28 p. Paper presented at the International Agricultural Communicators in Education Conference, Moscow, ID/Pullman, WA, July 16-20, 1994.

    37. Media coverage of toxic risks: a content analysis of pediatric environmental health information available to new and expecting mothers

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Mello, Susan (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2015-12
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 154 Document Number: D07021
    Journal Title:
    Health Communication
    Journal Title Details:
    30(12) : 1245-1255

    39. News media and technological risks: the case of pesticides after "Silent Spring"

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    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Gunter, Valerie J. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2005
    Published:
    USA: Midwest Sociological Society.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 201 Document Number: D11799
    Journal Title:
    Sociological Quarterly
    Journal Title Details:
    46 : 671-698
    Notes:
    Online via UI electronic subscription., This article reports on a study of the relative weight of attention given by the New York Times newspaper to alarming or reassuring messages about pesticides in the immediate aftermath of Silent Spring. Three models of media coverage are examined: conflict theory, sensationalism, and problem frame. Analysis revealed a complicated pattern of coverage which first highlighted, then downplayed, risk.