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As Predicted: Fact and Improbability in News Coverage of Astrology
Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Convention (2011)
  • Rick Clifton Moore, Boise State University
Abstract

This study examines a recent eruption of news about astrology. It uses as a lens research on how traditional news values might allow “mystical” ideas to maintain public acceptance in spite of scientific evidence against them. Contrasting that approach with a lens provided by Neil Postman, the current study finds reporting about astrology did not provide significant scientific basis for dismissal of the belief. The two lenses for discussing this provide very different insights, however.

Disciplines
Publication Date
August, 2011
Citation Information
Rick Clifton Moore. "As Predicted: Fact and Improbability in News Coverage of Astrology" Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Convention (2011)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/rick_moore/12/