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Radiation-scandal, medical malpractice, qualitative research, radiotherapy, public health. - In 1993 the director of the Radiotherapy Department of the University Hospital of Hamburg was accused of malpractice in radiological treatment. Experts insinuated that an agressive concept of radiotherapy with high doses was responsible for severe side effects from which many patients were suffering. The author of this thesis demonstrates that the so called Strahlenskandal (radiation-scandal) may be regarded as a production of the media but it also refers to severe problems of the modern health system. Several problems are pointed out: The potential of modern medicine is overestimated. There is a deficit of the development and reliability of medical standards. An important issue seems to be the doctor-patient-relationship implying hopes and disappointments on both sides. Furthermore there are structural conditions contributing to the fact that the scandal could happen such as the emphasis of technology and the specialisation of medical tasks, the hierarchical structures in hospitals and the strong separation of the hospital sector from other institutions of the health care system, which might be unique for Germany.

The present study examines third-person perceptions using an integrated model which takes into account the relationship between oneself and media messages, oneself and a comparison group, and the perception of the relationship between the comparison group and the message. Respondents were asked to estimate media effects on themselves, as well as perceived media effects on others regarding news coverage of sex scandals concerning priests in the Roman Catholic church. Results suggest that the integrated model can be used to better understand the perceptual component of third-person effects by simultaneously examining issue interest, group categorization, and issue relevance for comparison targets as factors contributing to overall third-person perceptions.

Cultural theories of communication and media events transcend naive ideas about the media as mere transmitters of information; however, they attend insufficiently to information itself. Richard Nixon's eulogists outraged his critics as they tried to bring the moral, emotional, and informational aspects of the funeral into balance. Placing the Watergate scandal in the context of Nixon's progressive administration, the eulogists not only affirmed national values and the dignity of the presidency but also provided positive information about Nixon that would have had less impact if communicated outside a symbol-laden state funeral setting. Thus, the Nixon funeral shows why the informational function of media events must occupy a more central place in communication theory.

The aim of this book is to a launch a polemic for the freedom of the press against all of the attempts to police, defile and sanitise journalism today. Once the media reported the news. Now it makes it. From the phone-hacking scandal to rows about press regulation, super-injunctions, leaks, libel and privacy laws, the power of the Murdoch empire, and the future of the BBC, the media has become the story. The British press is in crisis and under scrutiny as never before. In the fall-out from ...

We analyzed the activity of video bloggers Anatoly Sharij and Alexander Dubinsky. Their blogs both lead, mainly on the video hosting «YouTube ». However, other social networks are also actively involved. In particular, «Facebook» and channels in the messenger «Telegram». In terms of audience is leading Anatoly Shariy, YouTube channel that, as of September 22, 2019, has about 2.21 million users, while the channel Alexander Dubinsky subscribed to about 350 thousand people. The purpose of writing the work was to consider the phenomenon of the blogosphere as a new phenomenon of journalistic work, to determine the effectiveness and comparison of Anatoly shariy and Alexander Dubinsky's blogs as a tool for forming public opinion, in particular, during political scandals and presidential elections in 2019. The scientific novelty of intelligence is the lack of similar research materials related to the development of modern blogging. The results of the study are of practical importance, as they can be used for further study of the blogosphere. According to our forecasts, the development of blogging and its effectiveness will be even faster. Accordingly, the attention of the audience will be focused on «non-standard forms of journalism» than on the product of traditional media.

The proliferation of social media platforms changed the way people interact online. However, engagement with social media comes with a price, the users' privacy. Breaches of users' privacy, such as the Cambridge Analytica scandal, can reveal how the users' data can be weaponized in political campaigns, which many times trigger hate speech and anti-immigration views. Hate speech detection is a challenging task due to the different sources of hate that can have an impact on the language used, as well as the lack of relevant annotated data. To tackle this, we collected and manually annotated an immigration-related dataset of publicly available Tweets in UK, US, and Canadian English. In an empirical study, we explored anti-immigration speech detection utilizing various language features (word n-grams, character n-grams) and measured their impact on a number of trained classifiers. Our work demonstrates that using word n-grams results in higher precision, recall, and f-score as compared to character n-grams. Finally, we discuss the implications of these results for future work on hate-speech detection and social media data analysis in general.

Highlights: The United States has a generally strong anti-corruption and governance framework, through troubling exceptions exist, contributing to recent high-level lobbying and corruption scandals. Official secrecy is increasing. Lobbyists exploit loopholes in campaign finance regulations. The United States lacks a true ombudsman; instead a collection of oversight agencies, few of them truly independent, monitor different aspects of governance. The Inspectors General (IG), a key element of this framework, has received considerable political pressure, and IG appointments often go to party loyalists. In the civil service, political appointments made by the president without congressional approval have increased 33 percent between 2000 and 2005 (FEMA leadership during Hurricane Katrina was an example of these appointments at work).This peer-reviewed country report includes:Integrity Indicators Scorecard: Scores, scoring criteria, commentary, references, and peer review perspectives for more than 300 Integrity Indicators.Reporter's Notebook: An on-the-ground look at corruption and integrity from a leading local journalist.Corruption Timeline: Ten years of political context to today's corruption and integrity issues.Country Facts: Statistical context for each country.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- A-Z Entries -- Affirmative Consent Laws -- Agriculture Industry -- Ailes, Roger -- Amateur Sports -- Authority Figures -- "Baby It's Cold Outside" -- Backlash against Allegations of Sexual Harassment and Assault -- Ballard, Sarah -- Barnes v. Costle -- Barnes v. Train -- Batali, Mario -- Blair, Selma -- Buddhism -- Burke, Tarana -- "Burn Book of Bad Men" -- Campus Accountability and Safety Act (CASA) -- Campus Sexual Violence Elimination Act (SaVE Act) -- Carlson, Gretchen -- Casting Couch -- Catcalls -- Code of Conduct -- College Campuses -- College Campuses, Institutional Transparency -- Concerts -- Congress -- Constand, Andrea -- Corrections System -- Cosby, Bill -- Crews, Terry -- Denhollander, Rachael -- Discrimination -- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) -- Equal Protection Clause -- Factory and Manufacturing Settings -- Faragher v. City of Boca Raton -- Faragher-Ellerth Defense -- Farley, Lin -- Fashion Industry -- Federal Express Sexual Harassment Scandal -- Fine Arts -- Fowler, Susan J. -- Franken, Al -- Gamergate -- Gelser, Sara -- Gender Competency -- Gender Equality -- Gillibrand, Kirsten -- Glenn Thrush Scandal -- Groping -- Harris v. Forklift Systems -- Harvey Weinstein Scandal -- Health Care Industry -- Health Effects -- Hill, Anita -- Horrible Bosses -- Hostile Work Environment -- Human Trafficking -- Incel -- Iwu, Adama -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Taconite Co -- Judd, Ashley -- K-12 Education, Peer-to-Peer -- Kavanaugh, Brett -- Kelly, R. -- Kesha (Kesha Rose Sebert, Keha) -- Larry Nassar Scandal -- Lauer, Matt -- Louis C.K. -- MacKinnon, Catharine A. -- Mad Men -- Marital Violence -- M*A*S*H -- McGowan, Rose -- Media Men's List -- Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson -- #MeToo and Environmental Abuse -- #MeToo Movement -- Milano, Alyssa.

La investigación parte de la idea de la comunicación como un elemento nuclear, capaz de agravar o de mitigar una crisis y de que las crisis públicas cuando no se logran cerrar de manera adecuada se enquistan y presentan una sucesión de fases agudas. La crisis de comunicación vivida por el Partido Popular tras la publicación del llamado caso Bárcenas, que afecta al que fue extesorero nacional de esta formación política, es un ejemplo de esta situación y constituye el objeto de estudio de este trabajo. Se trata de un caso con cierto recorrido en el tiempo pero cuya actualidad no ha mermado. De hecho, en cierta manera representa un escenario común en la mayoría de las fuerzas políticas españolas en los últimos años. La investigación busca conocer cómo fue la respuesta comunicativa del PP ante este escándalo durante dos de sus fases agudas en 2013 y cómo fue la cobertura de la prensa. Para ello, se han analizado mediante el análisis de contenido las acciones comunicativas del PP en ambos periodos (cualitativo) y todas las noticias publicadas en El País y El Mundo sobre el tema en esos días (cuantitativo). Los resultados muestran que los escándalos de corrupción política conducen a la pérdida de confianza de la prensa en los partidos políticos y también ponen de manifiesto el enquistamiento de una crisis en sucesivas fases agudas cuando no se cierra adecuadamente. ; This research takes as starting points the ideas that communication becomes a key tool either to worsen or to mitigate any crisis, and that when a public crisis has not been properly closed it takes hold in a series of acute stages. A good example of this situation is the communications crisis suffered by the Spanish Popular Party (PP) in the wake of the 'Bárcenas scandal', a case of political corruption inside the PP involving its former treasurer. This matter becomes the object of analysis in this research, as it represents a scene common to most of the political parties in Spain during recent years. The aim of this research is to shed light on both the PP's communicative response to this corruption crisis during its two acute stages (both in 2013) and the media coverage of this political scandal. To achieve this objective the communicative actions of the PP during the two stages are analyzed with a qualitative content analysis. All the pieces of news published by El País and El Mundo regarding the 'Bárcenas scandal' are analyzed with a quantitative content methodology. The results show that political corruption scandals lead to the press losing its confidence in political parties, and that crises that are not properly solved result in become entrenched.

We revisit our 2017 Axe Files episode with Oscar-winning actor Tom Hanks, who joins David to talk about how he parlayed an early love of drama into a career, his most memorable roles, sexual harassment scandals in Hollywood, Trump's relationship with the media, and more.
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This paper deals with one of the most difficult and enduring issues in higher education: cheating. Predictably, the mass media emphasizes its more sensational aspects such as cheating scandals at military academies and commercial term paper mills. Available academic studies, however, document that classroom dishonesty is hardly an isolated phenomenon. Yet, public and campus concern shifts rapidly from indignation to inattention, leaving the problem much as it was.

This article will examine the 'Jerusalem dress' scandal, provoked by the dress worn by Miri Regev, the Israeli Minister of Culture and Sports, to the Cannes Film Festival Red Carpet event in 2017. Focusing on the intersection between contemporary fashion, celebrity culture, gender and politics, I will analyse the ways in which the dress can be read as blasphemous and thus lead to a cultural scandal of such dimensions. I will point to social and religious values that were undermined, considering Regev's political character, and to the effect of using a dress to make political statements on the international red carpet in this context. I will then draw conclusions regarding the impact of using a dress as a political statement in this particular Hollywood-style setting, as well as of its perception and unfolding in the digital media.

La importancia de la imagen en el desarrollo de las sociedades modernas ha determinado el enfoque dado por los medios a la hora de desplegar las diferentes coberturas informativas. Más, si cabe, en el caso de las campañas electorales, donde la reputación del candidato adquiere dimensiones considerables. Este estudio atenderá de modo concreto al concepto de news icon sugerido por Bennet. Por tanto no nos referimos a la imagen fotográfica, sino a las imágenes mentales consecuencia de informaciones repetidas que perduran en la mente del lector. Así, a través de un análisis tanto cualitativo como cuantitativo, se estudiará la presencia de la noticia icono en la campaña electoral gallega, especialmente en el diario ABC como protagonista de estas informaciones, aunque también nos referiremos a otros periódicos de referencia. El estudio pretende dar respuesta al poder que puede llegar a alcanzar los medios de comunicación durante la cobertura informativa de una campaña electoral, destacando la fuerza que adquieren determinadas imágenes en contraposición a la labor informativa clásica. El análisis permitirá demostrar que el poder de los escándalos destapados por ABC durante la campaña electoral radica en el marco interpretativo en el que se asientan, y no tanto en el poder del periodismo de investigación. Dicho de otro modo, la fuerza de los medios se deriva, en gran medida, del contexto en el que se producen las noticias, y no tanto de los distintos grados de gravedad que puedan ostentar las mismas. ; The importance of image in the development of modern societies has formed the approach taken by the media when deploying the various news coverage. This statement becomes even clearer, if possible, in the case of political campaigns where the candidate's reputation grows far more significant. This communication will focus concretely on the concept of "news icon" suggested by Bennet. Thus, through a content analysis, both qualitative and quantitative, will the presence of the news icon in the Galician campaign, especially in the ABC newspaper, be studied. The study will give response to the power that the media can reach in the coverage of an election, highlighting the strength that certain images gain in contrast to the work of classical information. The analysis will show that the strength of the scandals uncovered by ABC during the campaign lies in the interpretive framework in which they settle, and not so much on the power of investigative journalism. In other words, the power of media is derived mostly from the context in which news occur rather than the depth of importance they show.

The article investigates the role of precedent in mass media representation of the personality of Donald Trump. Analysis is based on the study of two articles issued in November, 2019, just after the hearings which started the process of impeachment initiated by the Democratic Party against the US President. While covering the breaking news event – impeachment of Donald Trump – media texts appeal to the Watergate precedent that forced Richard Nixon to resign the presidency in 1974. Nevertheless, the articles differ in placing emphasis: the first article focuses on denouncing D. Trump, and the second one runs down his accuser G. Sondland. The first article uses irrelevant, insignificant features as a basis for comparison of the Watergate precedent and Trump impeachment, which makes the association unreliable. The second article singles out the essential, differential features of the precedent and actually proves that Trump impeachment has nothing to do with the Watergate scandal, for these events and their characteristics are absolutely different. The articles demonstrate the realization of opposite media discourse strategies: one of them is explicitly aimed at a clearly negative, pejorative evaluation of the President's personality, whereas the other is suggestive of an implicitly positive, ameliorative attitude to him. It means that the reference to the same negatively connoted precedent does not necessarily lead to an equally negative mass media representation of the President's personality. The study shows that it is not the precedent but the context of its usage, created by the author of a political article, that plays the decisive role in characterizing an event or a personality in mass media discourse. ; Статья посвящена изучению роли прецедентного феномена в репрезентации личности действующего президента США в американском политическом медиадискурсе. Материалом анализа послужили две аналитических статьи, публикация которых совпала с началом кампании подготовки процедуры импичмента президента, инициированной Демократической партией США. Освещая информационное событие — импичмент Д. Трампа, медиатексты апеллируют к прецедентной ситуации Уотергейта, приведшей к отставке президента Никсона в 1974 году. При этом статьи различаются в расстановке акцентов, в концентрации внимания на обличении Д. Трампа в первой статье и критике Г. Зондланда, его обвинителя, во второй. В первой статье уподобление импичмента Трампа прецедентной ситуации Уотергейта основывается на нерелевантных, периферийных признаках, что делает уподобление недостоверным. Во второй статье вычленяются существенные, дифференциальные признаки Уотергейтского скандала, которым, как показано, ситуация с импичментом Трампа также не соответствует. Статьи демонстрируют реализацию противонаправленных дискурсивных стратегий — на значительное, эксплицитное понижение объекта оценивания (Д. Трампа) в одном случае и на его имплицитное повышение в другом. Это свидетельствует о неоднозначности медиарепрезентации личности Д. Трампа в анализируемых статьях, явной пейорации в одном случае и неявной мелиорации в другом, несмотря на референцию к прецеденту, трактуемому однозначно негативно в американской лингвокультуре. Анализ показывает, что определяющую роль в характеристике личности или события играет не прецедент, а контекст его употребления, предопределенный позицией автора статьи.