Abstract

PEREZ BERNARDES DE MORAES, Thiago. Death penalty in the pages of The New York Times. A study on the relationship between capital punishment, elections and public opinion. Rev. Int. Investig. Cienc. Soc. [online]. 2015, vol.11, n.2, pp.223-240. ISSN 2226-4000.  https://doi.org/10.18004/riics.2015.diciembre.223-240.

The death penalty has been one of the most controversial themes in the media in the United States. Accordingly we propose that to some extent, the media framework can exercise effect on public opinion (what is not a new idea in the literature), in a perspective of the waterfall where there are streams that develop interdependent way. This research aims to answer two questions: a) the framing of the topic of the death penalty, in temporal perspective, save relationship with framing the election theme? The publication of articles about capital punishment affects the public will support the death penalty? To answer these questions, we make two assumptions: a) there is a history between the election and the framework of the theme of the death penalty; (b)) the higher the volume of publications, the greater is the public support in favor of the death penalty. Our results show on adhesion of odds: 54% of annual framework) of articles about the death penalty can be explained by the framework paper for materials about elections; b) 24% of fall of desfavoralidade and 38% of the increased favoralidade of Americans regarding the death penalty can be explained due to the volume of annual publication of articles about the death penalty in The New York Times.

Keywords : The New York Times; death penalty; elections; public opinion; Chronicle.

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