School of Media and Journalism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA.
J Homosex. 2021 Feb 23;68(3):365-388. doi: 10.1080/00918369.2019.1656031. Epub 2019 Aug 30.
Public opinion about LGBT rights has shifted dramatically in the last 30 years. This study, a content analysis of 659 news articles from and from 1977-2013, examined the use of pro- and anti-LGBT organizations as sources to explore how coverage changed over time and to examine if there were differences in coverage of mainstream LGBT advocacy organizations versus those that are more radical in nature. Results showed that stories about the topics of marriage/families, entertainment, AIDS, politics and protests were the most likely to use LGBT advocacy organizations as sources. Use of radical organizations as sources peaked in the 1990s, when the majority of AIDS and protest stories were published. Anti-LGBT organizations were used as sources in just under 20 percent of the coded stories but stories covering some topics like marriage/families saw much higher rates of anti-LGBT organizational sourcing. Implications are discussed.
在过去的 30 年中，公众对 LGBT 权利的看法发生了巨大变化。本研究对 1977 年至 2013 年间来自 和 的 659 篇新闻文章进行了内容分析，研究了赞成和反对 LGBT 组织作为消息来源的使用情况，以探讨报道随时间的变化情况，并研究是否存在对主流 LGBT 倡导组织的报道与更激进性质的组织的报道之间的差异。结果表明，有关婚姻/家庭、娱乐、艾滋病、政治和抗议等主题的故事最有可能使用 LGBT 倡导组织作为消息来源。激进组织作为消息来源的使用在 20 世纪 90 年代达到顶峰，当时发布了大多数关于艾滋病和抗议的故事。在编码的故事中，只有不到 20%的故事使用了反 LGBT 组织作为消息来源，但报道某些主题（如婚姻/家庭）的故事中，反 LGBT 组织消息来源的使用比例要高得多。讨论了其中的含义。
