Newspaper Treatment of the Viking Mission to Mars, 1975-76
Description:
The study's problem was whether five major newspapers that covered Viking produced informative, educational, interpretive, and credible stories. Indexed, microfilmed articles from January, 1975, to November, 1976, were analyzed. Conclusions: no newspaper gave the landings the greatest percentage of coverage; every newspaper devoted the largest percentage of coverage to interpretation; science writers used analogy most often; adequate explanations of Viking's implications were not found; four of…
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Date:
August 1979
Creator:
Hardaway, Bonnelle B.
Partner:
UNT Libraries