Table 3.

Number and proportion of story tone in marijuana legalization articles, 1995–2014.

Tone		NYT	WSJ	WP	DP	ST	SFC	DMN	TT	CD	TW	Total
Negative	N	4	20	9	11	7	1	25	19	8	9	113
	%	5.5	29.0	12.2	13.8	10.4	1.4	37.9	29.2	29.2	23.1	17.7
Balanced	N	42	37	41	58	36	48	27	32	14	19	354
	%	57.5	53.6	55.4	72.5	53.7	66.7	40.9	49.2	40.0	48.7	55.3
Positive	N	27	12	24	11	24	23	14	14	13	11	173
	%	37.0	17.4	32.4	13.8	35.8	31.9	21.2	21.5	37.1	28.2	27.0
Number		73	69	74	80	67	72	66	65	35	39	640

Note: NYT, the New York Times, WSJ, the Wall Street Journal, WP, the Washington Post, DP, the Denver Post, ST, the Seattle Times, SFC, the San Francisco Chronicle, DMN, the Dallas Morning News, TT, the Tampa Tribune, CD, the Columbus Dispatch, TW, the Tulsa World.