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News Frames

• Gaye Tuchman, “News as Frame,” from Making News: A Study in the Construction of Reality, 1978
• Marisa Nack, "Hazing and the Media: An analysis of The Burlington Free Press’s coverage of hazing on the UVM Hockey team," (Student paper, Sociology 243, Spring 2006)

• Propaganda from the Middle of the Road, http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1492

What does Tuchman mean by “the social construction” of news? How does she understand a “frame”? What does she focus on to understand what frames are and how they come to be? What frames operated in the press coverage of the UVM hockey scandal, and how does Marisa Nack explain their causes and consequences? What does Jeff Cohen mean by "propaganda from the middle of the road"? What routine journalistic habits does he cite as evidence?