Presidential rhetoric and news rhetoric

Ying Roselyn Du

doi:10.4018/978-1-4666-5003-9.ch015

Presidential rhetoric and news rhetoric

Ying Roselyn Du^*

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Department of Journalism

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This study examines the role of U.S. presidents as a news source in the media agenda shaping process. DICTION text-analysis software was used to analyze transcripts of U.S. presidents' state of the union addresses and related news coverage from 1981 to 2007. DICTION software calculated scores for five major dimensions of content in the addresses and related news stories. Results revealed that the addresses and related news coverage contained dissimilar rhetoric, suggesting that, overall, the presidents had little influence on independent media outlets in that regard.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Communication and Language Analysis in the Public Sphere
Publisher	IGI Global
Pages	262-274
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9781466650046
ISBN (Print)	1466650036, 9781466650039
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-5003-9.ch015
Publication status	Published - 31 Jan 2014

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