TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1987//
TI  - Risk and the Press
JO  - Industrial crisis quarterly
A1  - Nelkin, Dorothy
SP  - 3
EP  - 9
VL  - 1
IS  - 2
N2  - 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.<p /> 
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SN  - 0921-8106
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/108602668700100202
ID  - ref1
ER  -