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Media Coverage of Environmental Issues

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Aktuelle Medientrends in den USA

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There is a perplexingly wide range of involvement, interest, and identification with environmental issues. Citizens seem able to display a wide variety of concern for environmental issues depending on the specific issue, demographical factors, and even geographical location (Andrews 1998; Carmen 1998; Klineberg/McKeever /Rothenbach 1998). Environmental concern is associated with many different tradeoffs that stimulate inconsistent responses (Klineberg et al. 1998: 752). Some scholars assert that citizens are expressing increased concern over the number and variety of environmental problems (McClellan 1992; Pope 1992). Neuzil and Kovarik (1996) note that newspaper readers have identified environmental news as the fastest growing topic of news interest.

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Nitz, M.E. (2001). Media Coverage of Environmental Issues. In: Kleinsteuber, H.J. (eds) Aktuelle Medientrends in den USA. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-07786-2_18

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