Comparative newspaper coverage in agenda-setting: animal welfare in Dutch newspaper

In the United States most newspapers follow news priorities of the New York Times. Based on this knowledge most scholars use the New York Times index to determine media coverage in agenda-setting (Baumgartner and Jones 1993, 2005). How newspapers react to each other in other countries and thereby causing a cascade of responses is unknown. In this case study the similarity between the amounts of media coverage given to the issue animal welfare are compared among three Dutch newspapers. The results show no punctuated increase in attention for animal welfare, although the amount of attention is o... Mehr ...