Expert quotes and exaggeration in health news: a retrospective quantitative content analysis.

ABSTRACT: Background This research is an investigation into the role of expert quotes in health news, specifically whether news articles containing a quote from an independent expert are less often exaggerated than articles without such a quote. Methods Retrospective quantitative content analysis of journal articles, press releases, and associated news articles was performed. The investigated sample are press releases on peer-reviewed health research and the associated research articles and news stories. Our sample consisted of 462 press releases and 668 news articles from the UK (2011) and 129 press releases and 185 news articles from The Netherlands (2015). We hand-coded all journal articles, press releases and news articles for correlational claims, using a well-tested codebook. The

SUBMITTER: Bossema FG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6619368 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature