Fanning the flames? Media coverage during wildfire events and its relation to broader social understandings of the hazard

    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Paveglio, Travis (author), Norton, Todd (author), and Carroll, Matthew S. (author)
    Format:
    Journal article
    Publication Date:
    2011
    URL:
    https://www.humanecologyreview.org/181.htm
    Published:
    International
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 136 Document Number: D11441
    Journal Title:
    Human Ecology Review
    Journal Title Details:
    18(1) : 41-52
    Subject Term:
    coverage, information issues, information needs, journalism, land management, mass media, media, media effectiveness, natural resource management, natural resources, news, news media, perceptions, private sector, public attitudes, reporting, bias, ownership, public sector, personal management, wildfire, journalism standards, public property, and personal responsibility
    Notes:
    1 page., Analysis of media coverage of wildfires, with special notation of tendency of coverage to assign highest value to the interests of private property owners in the fire region and to assign low value to publicly owned land in the region.

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