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Differential anxiety responses to television coverage of national threat situations and terrorism in Israel were examined. A total of 237 participants were evenly divided into two groups, each exposed to an experimental or control condition. The experimental condition involved exposure to television news clips of terrorism and threats to national security. The control condition involved equivalent-length exposure to news clips unrelated to national danger situations. Results supported the anxiety-inducing effect of the experimental condition and indicated differential demographic and dispositional responses to the footage according to gender, religiousness, and level of dogmatism. These results support the powerful effect of the mass media and advocate further exploration of links between media broadcasting of political violence and psychological processes.

The Olympic Games have always occupied a special place in the information environment. Coverage of the preparation of these important competitions in modern media discourse deserves more detailed consideration. This is due to the development of new media, in particular, social networks and a kind of competition with traditional media. Accordingly, the aim of the work is to analyze the peculiarities of the coverage of the Olympic Games in the media. As a result of the study, it was concluded that since the London Olympics in 2012, traditional media have experienced strong competition from social networks (eg, Facebook, Twitter). As a result, new media promote active communication, which allows individual consumers to create content in a very specific way. At the same time, there are alarming trends in the use of the media in information or political confrontation, which is a threat to freedom of expression. In order to analyze the coverage of the Olympic Games in the media, general theoretical research methods are used, including analysis and synthesis. The conclusions conclude that modern media contribute to the promotion of the Olympic movement in the world, and the use of the latest media opportunities significantly democratize and diversify this process.

ABSTRACTWe examine how the tone of news articles about CEOs affects corporate investment at the CEOs' firms. Using unique Chinese media coverage data, we show that positive CEO news articles are significantly associated with increased corporate investment, and the total number of articles does not matter. To establish causality, we use a Granger lead-lag test approach, as well as an instrumental variable approach that uses type of news outlets (state-controlled versus non-state-controlled). Our identification strategies suggest a positive causal effect of CEO news tone on the level of corporate investment. We further identify two underlying economic mechanisms: CEO overconfidence and investor sentiment. We find that the relation between CEO news tone and corporate investment is mainly driven by the overinvestment aspect of investment inefficiency. Our work contributes to prior literature by examining the effects of specific news types (i.e., CEO coverage) and by highlighting a behavioral perspective underlying corporate investment.