News Balance Rhetoric: The Fraser Institute’s Political Appropriation of Content Analysis

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Authors and Corporations: Hackett, Robert A.
In: Canadian Journal of Communication, 17, 1992, 1
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University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
Media Type: Article, E-Article

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ISSN: 1499-6642
0705-3657
DOI: 10.22230/cjc.1992v17n1a646
published in: Canadian Journal of Communication
Language: English
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Collection: University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (CrossRef)
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<jats:p> The Fraser Institute’s bulletin On Balance, which offers monthly content analyses of news, is critically examined. Methodological, conceptual and epistemological problems are discussed, as well as a rhetorical mode of reporting results which implies a politicized interpretation of news. </jats:p>