Print media coverage of primary healthcare and related research evidence in South Africa
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...The news media is located at the interface between public and policy agendas, and plays a major role in setting policy agendas [25] as well as providing a window into issues concerning the general population [26,27] and helping influence policy agendas by focusing public attention on particular issues at the expense of others [26–29]....
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...Through the gatekeeping process, media organizations help determine what is and what is not covered, thereby influencing policy agendas [36,37]....
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...The gatekeeping literature suggests that news media coverage does not necessarily reflect the salience of issues in the real world, but that media organizations prioritize items for publication based on what they consider newsworthy [35-37]....
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...Implications for research Our finding that some issues, such as accountability of the state sector’s role in financing and delivery, received prominent coverage in the print media, while others, such as rape, received limited coverage is consistent with the literature on gatekeeping [35-37]....
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...Potential news items are moved along, halted or discarded as they pass through news channels from the source to a reporter to a number of editors [35-37]....
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