Sentences with phrase «coverage as hostile»

Past research shows that individuals more heavily involved on an issue, such as climate scientists, often tend to view even objectively favorable media coverage as hostile to their goals.

They include a tendency for individuals heavily involved on an issue to perceive almost all news coverage as hostile to their goals (even news coverage that favors their position); to presume much larger effects for a message on the public than the actual influence; and to apply a faulty quasi-statistical sense to where public opinion might actually stand on an issue, perceiving public opinion as hostile to their goals, no matter what the objective indicators might say.

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I've endured hostile flight attendants in premium cabins on 14 hour flights, overheard United Club supervisors making homophobic comments to other employees, followed news coverage of passengers being physically removed from planes and watched as Kirby has wrecked an otherwise improving operation.

The most uncomprehending comments from the Post were those of columnist Richard Cohen, who denounced Scalia as a «cheap - shot artist» for his attack on the Post's coverage of reported miracles in Virginia, and claimed Scalia was «abusing» the newspaper to make his point that the «worldly wise» are hostile «to religion and religious phenomena.»

As a psychological tendency, past research shows that among those most strongly committed to a position on an issue; even objectively favorable coverage is likely to be viewed as biased and hostile to their goalAs a psychological tendency, past research shows that among those most strongly committed to a position on an issue; even objectively favorable coverage is likely to be viewed as biased and hostile to their goalas biased and hostile to their goals.

The mass media can play an important role in providing health information and related issues for parents and caregivers.10 However, adolescents are typically portrayed in the media as hostile, violent, delinquent, alienated from parents and families, and resistant to any assistance.3, 51,52 In news and television coverage, content analyses found that adolescents are depicted as perpetrators or victims of crime and violence, problem - ridden and disruptive.51, 52 In addition to the mass media images, public attitudes towards adolescents are predominately negative.51 A population approach to build a climate of public interest and responsiveness will require actively working towards counteracting the predominantly negative media coverage of adolescents.3 Media messages can raise parents» awareness and willingness to attend parenting programmes by normalizing their experiences of receiving professional support.