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This content data is part of a doctoral study on the ideological framework of television news in Canada, with particular focus on economic and industrial affairs. The hypothesis, broadly speaking, is that the `inferential framework' of the news will tend to support the legitimacy and intelligibility of capitalist social relations, and conversely to undermine political and economic challenges to those relations.

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Variables The content data in this file is the first and more general of two content studies of TV news. It roughly parallels the kind of data reported by the Glasgow media group in the first volume of their study <i>Bad news</i>. The key kinds of variables concern basic identification data (story topic, duration, position, etc.), technical inputs (film, graphics, etc.), modes of presentation, interviewees and news values. The discrete news item is the basic unit of analysis.

No sampling (total universe)

Compilation or synthesis of existing material

analysis of Canadian TV news