As Predicted: Fact and Improbability in News Coverage of Astrology

Rick Clifton Moore

As Predicted: Fact and Improbability in News Coverage of Astrology

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Abstract

This study examines a recent eruption of news about astrology. It uses as a lens research on how traditional news values might allow “mystical” ideas to maintain public acceptance in spite of scientific evidence against them. Contrasting that approach with a lens provided by Neil Postman, the current study finds reporting about astrology did not provide significant scientific basis for dismissal of the belief. The two lenses for discussing this provide very different insights, however.

Original language	American English
State	Published - Aug 2011
Event	Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Convention - Duration: 1 Aug 2011 → …

Conference

Conference	Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Convention
Period	1/08/11 → …

EGS Disciplines

Communication

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