{"id":1461508,"date":"2022-05-03T08:14:38","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T12:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1461508"},"modified":"2022-05-03T08:14:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T12:14:43","slug":"study-media-12-times-more-likely-to-call-floridas-anti-grooming-bill-dont-say-gay-than-actual-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-media-12-times-more-likely-to-call-floridas-anti-grooming-bill-dont-say-gay-than-actual-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Media 12 Times More Likely to Call Florida\u2019s Anti-Grooming Bill \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d Than Actual Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstudy-media-12-times-more-likely-to-call-floridas-anti-grooming-bill-dont-say-gay-than-actual-name%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1461508&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>If you relied exclusively on broadcast or liberal cable networks for your news, you\u2019d likely be surprised to learn that Florida\u2019s recently-passed education law was not officially titled, \u201cthe Don\u2019t Say Gay law.\u201d An MRC analysis found that TV networks almost exclusively referred to the law by this politically-charged epithet, with most outlets only using the law\u2019s official name\u00a0\u2014 \u201cParental Rights in Education\u201d \u2014 one or two times in the past months.<\/p>\n<p>MRC analysts examined all broadcast (ABC, CBS, NBC) and liberal cable (CNN, MSNBC) coverage of Florida\u2019s latest education law between February 1 and April 28. During that time, we found 230 instances in which anchors, analysts, and contributors referred to the law as the \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d bill, but only 18 cases where they used its official name \u2014 the \u201cParental Rights in Education\u201d bill.<\/p>\n<p>MSNBC led the pack with 88 uses of the Democratic Party\u2019s preferred label, and a paltry two uses of the bill\u2019s official name. CNN repeated the \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d phrasing 75 times, and used the \u201cParental Rights\u201d language only eight times.<\/p>\n<p>NBC was the most slanted of the broadcast networks, with 33 instances of the \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d label, and just one case in which the official name was used. For CBS, the breakdown was 18-to-one, and for ABC, it was a relatively more balanced 16-to-six.<\/p>\n<p>Broadcast networks almost always noted that \u201cDon\u2019t Say Gay\u201d was the phrasing adopted by the bill\u2019s critics. CNN also generally stuck to this rule, with only a handful of exceptions. The same can not be said of MSNBC, where hosts and contributors alike habitually used the Democrats\u2019 label as though it were the bill\u2019s official name:<\/p>\n<p>Labelling can be a very effective means of controlling political discourse, and it\u2019s one the media <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/rich-noyes\/2017\/02\/06\/double-standard-5x-more-ideological-labels-conservative-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">use frequently<\/a><\/strong>. By relying almost exclusively on the Democrats\u2019 framing, the media are conditioning their audiences to react negatively to this legislation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you relied exclusively on broadcast or liberal cable networks for your news, you\u2019d likely be surprised to learn that Florida\u2019s recently-passed education law was not officially titled, \u201cthe Don\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1461508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1461508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1461508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1461508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1461508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1461508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}