米エリート紙における日本の首相報道 : 逸脱理論、覇権理論による偏向の研究

抄録

This study uses content analysis to determine how objectibely four recent Japanese prime ministers were covered by the U.S."elite" press : The New York Times, Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times. It was hypothesized that their degree of "deviance" as a normative prime minister and their political / economic stances on U.S. -Japan relationship would influence the content of the elite press. The results show that bias exists. The present study also found a correlation between Japanese opinion polls and the perceived bias in the press, which implies that Japanese people's opinios might have affected the coverage.