Abstract
This study examined the news cov erage of the Three Mile Island and the Chernobyl nuclear accidents and the role of political ideology in deciding the content of news in two elite U.S. newspapers, the New York Times and the Washington Post, and two elite Soviet newspapers, Pravda and Izvestiya. The findings indicated that the U.S. press coverage of Chernobyl had a predominantly negative bias compared to the U.S. press coverage of Three Mile I sland. Soviet press coverage of Three Mile Island had a more negative bias than the news cov erage of Chernobyl. The study concludes that both the U.S. and the Soviet news media were heavily influenced by the Cold War climate and the dominant ideology of each society.
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