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  • The 'crisis' frame in Australian newspaper reports in 2005

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    McLean, Hamish
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    McLean, Hamish E.
    Year published
    2007
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    Abstract
    This paper examines how the 'crisis' frame was used to report actual events such as areas of government mismanagement of health, water supply, and energy in Australian newspaper headlines and lead paragraphs in 2005. The crisis frame was also linked to predicted crises such as shortages of skilled workers and infrastructure. A search of the Factiva database of Australian newspapers located 3,745 articles that contained the word 'crisis' in the headline and/or lead paragraph. The crisis label was more frequently applied to government than to corporate and business areas of responsibility. The paper includes discussion ...
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    This paper examines how the 'crisis' frame was used to report actual events such as areas of government mismanagement of health, water supply, and energy in Australian newspaper headlines and lead paragraphs in 2005. The crisis frame was also linked to predicted crises such as shortages of skilled workers and infrastructure. A search of the Factiva database of Australian newspapers located 3,745 articles that contained the word 'crisis' in the headline and/or lead paragraph. The crisis label was more frequently applied to government than to corporate and business areas of responsibility. The paper includes discussion of the benefits of the 'press as an early warning system for crisis, while urging caution because of the ability of the press to use frames selectively to create particular constructions of news events.
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    Journal Title
    Australian Journal of Communication
    Volume
    34
    Issue
    2
    Publisher URI
    https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/ielapa.200801077
    Copyright Statement
    © The Author(s) 2007. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution - Non-Commercial License (CC BY-NC 3.0 AU) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/au) which permits unrestricted, non-commercial use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, providing that the work is properly cited.
    Subject
    Media Studies
    Journalism and Professional Writing
    Communication and Media Studies
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/60888
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    • Journal articles

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