Citation

Nelkin D. Ind. Crisis Q. 1987; 1(2): 3-9.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, Industrial Crisis Institute - Bucknell University)

DOI

10.1177/108602668700100202

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Press reporting is instrumental in creating public attitudes towards technological risk and related problems of health, and in shaping the policy agenda. This paper uses examples from the coverage of the health effects of dioxin, to explore some characteristics of risk reporting. It suggests how risk reporting reflects both, the constraints of journalism and the attitudes of scientists and industrial sources of information as they seek to manipulate press coverage of risk through increasingly sophisticated public relations.