THE SHARE ANALYSIS OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE'S ARTICLES ON THE NEWSPAPER

Abstract

Newspapers are still thought of as important information sources and to strongly influence citizens' awareness and understanding of infrastructure. It would be beneficial for citizens to obtain information on various infrastructure issues easily through newspapers. This study investigates how much articles about infrastructure are included in newspapers published in both of Japanese and United States. The authors also compare the share of those articles with regard to number of articles, words, pictures, figures and tables. As a result, few such articles were found. News articles related to infrastructure are reported with more topics in United States than Japan. And those articles are written with the topics related not to development itself but to economy or accident. Thus, the government or planning authority is expected to increase dissemination through newspaper articles by preparing story behind the infrastructure development.