Departmental Papers (ASC)
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
October 1985
Abstract
Content analysis of TV programming across day- and night-time genres shows drugs and machines as the ubiquitous modes of healing, with doctors diagnosing incorrectly only three percent of the time.
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Date Posted: 17 January 2008
This document has been peer reviewed.
Comments
Reprinted in Journal of Communication, Autumn 1985, pages 36-51.
NOTE: At the time of publication, the author Joseph Turow was affiliated with Purdue University. Currently January 2008, he is a faculty member of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania.