Media coverage of the unfolding crisis of domestic terrorism in the United States, 1990–2020

IF 2.7 Q1 COMMUNICATION

Public Relations Inquiry Pub Date : 2021-02-23 DOI:10.1177/2046147X21996015

Diana Zulli, Kevin Coe, Z. Isaacs, Ian Summers

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Abstract

Public relations research has paid considerable attention to foreign terrorist crises but relatively little attention to domestic ones—despite the growing salience of domestic terrorism in the United States. This study content analyzes 30 years of network television news coverage of domestic terrorism to gain insight into four theoretical issues of enduring interest within the literature on news framing and crisis management: sourcing, contextualization, ideological labeling, and definitional uncertainty. Results indicate that the sources called upon to contextualize domestic terrorism have shifted over time, that ideological labels are more often applied on the right than the left, and that definitional uncertainty has increased markedly in recent years. Implications for the theory and practice of public relations and crisis management are discussed.

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1990-2020年美国国内恐怖主义危机的媒体报道

公共关系研究对外国恐怖主义危机给予了相当大的关注，但对国内恐怖主义危机的关注相对较少——尽管美国国内恐怖主义日益突出。本研究内容分析30 多年的国内恐怖主义网络电视新闻报道，深入了解新闻框架和危机管理文献中长期关注的四个理论问题：来源、背景化、意识形态标签和定义不确定性。结果表明，随着时间的推移，被要求将国内恐怖主义背景化的来源发生了变化，意识形态标签更多地贴在右翼而不是左翼身上，近年来定义的不确定性显著增加。讨论了对公共关系和危机管理的理论和实践的启示。

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Public Relations Inquiry COMMUNICATION-

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