The Role of the U.S. Geological Survey in providing information to news media about the 1980 eruptions of Mount St. Helens

Between Mount St. Helens and the world: How the U.S. Geological Survey provided news-media information on the 1980 volcanic eruptions

Circular ◽

10.3133/cir921 ◽

1984 ◽

Author(s):

Peter D. Rowley ◽

M.H. Hait ◽

Donald R. Finley ◽

Donovan B. Kelly ◽

Susan L. Russell-Robinson ◽

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Keyword(s):

News Media ◽

Volcanic Eruptions ◽

Geological Survey ◽

The World ◽

The U.S ◽

Mount St Helens

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Apathy and Color-Blindness in Privatized Immigration Control

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity ◽

10.1177/2332649219846140 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 6 (4) ◽

pp. 533-547 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Kim Ebert ◽

Wenjie Liao ◽

Emily P. Estrada

Keyword(s):

Immigration Policy ◽

News Media ◽

Normal Component ◽

Color Blindness ◽

The Public ◽

Immigration Control ◽

For Profit ◽

Control Research ◽

The U.S

Despite several widely covered scandals involving the role of for-profit corporations in administering immigration policy, the privatization of immigration control continues apace with the criminalization of immigration. How does this practice sustain its legitimacy among the public amid so much controversy? Recent studies on the criminalization of immigration suggest that supporters would explicitly vilify immigrants to defend the privatization of immigration control. Research on racialized social control, on the other hand, implies that proponents would avoid explicit racism and vilification and instead rely on subtler narratives to validate the practice. Drawing on a qualitative analysis of over 600 frames derived from nearly 200 news media articles spanning over 20 years, we find that journalists and their sources rarely vilify immigrants to justify the privatization of immigration control. Instead, they frame the privatization of immigration detention as a normal component of population management and an integral part of the U.S. economy through what we call the apathy strategy—a pattern of void in which not only the systematic oppression of immigrants is underplayed, immigrant themselves also become invisible.

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The role of the U.S. Geological Survey in the lithium industry

Energy ◽

10.1016/0360-5442(78)90026-9 ◽

1978 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 299-304

Author(s):

James D. Vine

Keyword(s):

Geological Survey ◽

The U.S

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Fish health, fungal infections, and Pfiesteria: the role of the U.S. Geological Survey

Fact Sheet ◽

10.3133/fs11498 ◽

1999 ◽

Author(s):

Vicki Blazer ◽

Scott Phillips ◽

Edward Pendleton

Keyword(s):

Fungal Infections ◽

Geological Survey ◽

Fish Health ◽

The U.S

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Covid-19, Media Reporting, and the Role of Bioethicists

Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai Bioethica ◽

10.24193/subbbioethica.2021.spiss.90 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 66 (Special Issue) ◽

pp. 137-138

Author(s):

Federico Nicoli ◽

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Paul J. Cummins ◽

Joseph A. Raho ◽

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Keyword(s):

News Media ◽

Media Coverage ◽

The Other ◽

Scientific Uncertainty ◽

Media Reporting ◽

The Public ◽

The Media ◽

The U.S

"In the aftermath of the 2014 Ebola outbreak, media coverage was scrutinized for sensationalism, weakness in explaining scientific uncertainty, dehumanization of patients, and lack of contextualization. The current COVID-19 crisis presents an opportunity to assess whether the media learned its lesson. Results are mixed. Early reporting on the origin of COVID-19 in “wet markets” indicates that the media continues to do poorly with contextualization. On the other hand, stories on mortality and the infectiousness of COVID-19 indicate there has been improvement. The situation remains fluid as COVID-19 threatens to transform into a pandemic at the time of submission. Data from new countries may alter the reported rates of lethality and infectiousness, and media reporting on these changes may or may not be responsible. The explosion of social media, as a medium to promote reporting, could provide bioethicists a tool to direct the public to reliable stories and criticize inaccurate ones. Using a bioethics perspective, this poster will critically evaluate the quality of U.S. and Italian news media’s reporting on the evolving scientific understanding of COVID-19 and its contextualization. The presentation will employ QR technology to provide links to media coverage of COVID-19 from the U.S. and Italian news media. After critically appraising the quality of COVID-19 reporting, this poster will consider if bioethicists: 1) should provide comment to the media on pandemics; 2) should correct reporting for the public and 3) have a duty to publicly criticize sensationalism in the media. "

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