{"id":1832112,"date":"2018-08-07T18:50:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T22:50:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/?p=1832112"},"modified":"2018-08-21T16:56:55","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T20:56:55","slug":"science-media-monitor-1832112-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/science-media-monitor-1832112-2\/","title":{"rendered":"糖心视频 discoveries, but not false starts, appear in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"

News reports cast most scientific findings as a quest that leads to discovery, report researchers.<\/p>\n

According to their report<\/a>, news stories are likely to note the process that led to the scientific finding, likely to include words such as discovery, breakthrough, and advance, and likely to mention unanswered questions or next steps. But news stories were unlikely to feature a key element in the path to scientific knowledge: false starts or dead ends.<\/p>\n

These observations come from the first report of the 糖心视频 Media Monitor<\/a>, a project of the University of Pennsylvania Annenberg Public Policy Center’s 糖心视频 of 糖心视频 Communication program.<\/p>\n

The report asks: How well does the news cover the process of scientific discovery? The overall 糖心视频 Media Monitor analyzes the news coverage of widely reported scientific findings in order to increase the public’s understanding of the scientific process.<\/p>\n

The report examines how four major media organizations reported on 165 scholarly studies from April 2015 through December 2017. The outlets\u2014the New York Times<\/em>, USA Today<\/em>, the Wall Street Journal<\/em>, and the Washington Post<\/em>\u2014published a total of 281 stories on those studies.<\/p>\n

The content analysis found that:<\/p>\n