Abstract
The current study explores how coverage of U.S. Supreme Court nominee hearings has changed during the past three decades. Game framing is argued to be seeping its way from purely political coverage into other types of news coverage. Changes in hearing characteristics were examined across time by examining several newspapers and Supreme Court nominee hearings from William H. Rehnquist through Elena Kagan. Findings suggested coverage of nominee hearings is increasingly game framed, thus nominee hearing news coverage is increasingly presented in terms of political strategy and posturing. Normative implications of game framing of Supreme Court hearings are discussed.
Journal Title
Iowa Journal of Communication
Volume
45
Issue
1
First Page
1
Last Page
18
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Harvell, Lindsey A.; Nisben, Gwendelyn S.; and Hansen, Glenn J.
(2013)
"Analyzing Journalistic Approaches of Supreme Court Nominee Hearings: A Longitundinal Study,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 45:
No.
1, Article 4.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol45/iss1/4
Copyright
©2013 Iowa Communication Association
