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Diabetes TV News coverage lags behind

Diabetes Care [March 2002]

Abstract:

Millions of Americans depend on the national nightly network news programs for current events information (1). Previous studies showed that nightly network news coverage about diabetes paled in comparison with that given to cancer and heart disease during the 1970s and 1980s (2,3). We evaluated whether the amount of national news coverage given to diabetes had improved during the 1990s and the extent to which racial disparities in diabetes had been highlighted. Specific objectives included tracking diabetes-related coverage on major nightly network news programs for the last 10 years, comparing diabetes coverage with that of cancer and heart disease, and examining the content of diabetes-related coverage.

The Vanderbilt Television News Archives (VTNA) has videotaped, catalogued, and indexed nightly news broadcasts from ABC, CBS, and NBC since 1968 (4). In addition, the VTNA began doing the same with the CNN evening news beginning in 1989. The VTNA abstract indexes were searched for keywords "diabetes," "cancer," and "heart disease." The content of each diabetes-related abstract and selected cancer and heart disease abstracts were examined to determine whether disease-specific racial disparities were reported.

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Publication Year:	2002
Type of Material:	Article
Language	English
Published in:	Diabetes Care
Publication Info:	Volume 25 Number 607
Issue:	March 2002
Publisher:	The American Diabetes Association
Subject:	Vanderbilt Television News Archive -- Research Use
Online access:	http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/full/25/3/607
ISSN:	0149-5992
Record Number:	11541
Last Update:	2022-08-11 23:45:17
Date Created:	0000-00-00 00:00:00
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