Table 4.
Comparison of the usage of news frames by newspaper.
| Newspapers | Total | NYC (N = 54) |
DC (N = 18) |
LA (N = 16) |
χ2 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | % | n | % | n | % | |||
| Attribution Frame | ||||||||
| Episodic | 41 | 26 | 48.1 | 12 | 66.7 | 3 | 18.8 | 7.95* |
| Thematic | 47 | 28 | 51.9 | 6 | 33.3 | 13 | 81.2 | 7.95* |
| Health-Crisis Frame | ||||||||
| Consequence | 66 | 41 | 75.9 | 14 | 77.8 | 11 | 68.8 | 0.43 |
| Seriousness | 64 | 37 | 68.5 | 14 | 77.8 | 13 | 81.2 | 1.30 |
| Uncertainty | 38 | 20 | 63.0 | 8 | 44.4 | 8 | 50.0 | 2.26 |
| Action | 33 | 17 | 68.5 | 8 | 44.4 | 8 | 50.0 | 4.12 |
| Reassurance | 33 | 22 | 41.5 | 6 | 33.3 | 5 | 31.2 | 0.75 |
| Conflict | 28 | 17 | 31.5 | 3 | 16.7 | 8 | 50.0 | 4.34 |
| New Evidence | 29 | 20 | 37.0 | 4 | 22.2 | 5 | 31.2 | 1.37 |
Note: *p < 0.05.