2020Plus "Bad News?" Study
Thanks for your interest in the 2020Plus Public Study on bad news in the media.
Aim: To measure the incidence of certain emotive words in TV or Internet broadcast news coverage.
(Watch the short video or read the background behind the study.)
Process: You are requested to:
- Watch one or more news broadcasts before Sunday, October 16 on any TV channel or online. (Please do not watch the same 'rolling' news programme more than once over a single day, as news scripts are usually repeated.)
- Choose one or more of the words below and count how many times they are used. NOTE: please also include words used in the scrolling news bar and strapline at the bottom of the screen. (We are not including radio or online text reports in this study).
- crisis
- emergency
- disaster / disastrous
- recession / recessionary / depression
- desperate
- Please tell us: the name of the programme, the name of the channel and the number of times you heard the word(s) mentioned. Please tweet OR email your findings to:
- Twitter: @malfletcher
- Email: study@2020plus.net
The study will close on Sunday October 16. We will let you know what the study turns up!
THANK YOU!