Australian Election Campaign Television News Coverage 2007 Ch 7 Brisbane 6 pm weighted days.

The 2007 election campaign TV news coverage files extend previous sets of TV news coverage data gathered by David Denemark (1998) and by David Denemark, Clive Bean ((Queensland Univ of Technology) and Ian Ward (Univ of Queensland), 2001). The aim of the project was to explore television news coverage of Australian election campaigns and measured the amount of television coverage of political parties, leaders and election issues. National bulletins were collected and local news in Brisbane and Perth during the 2007 federal election campaign. This study was also conducted in 1998 and 2001. This study measures coverage of 12 election issues and 10 other issues as defined in the Australian Election Study, 2007 (ADA No. 1120). This file refers to the Channel 7 Brisbane News coverage at 6 pm. Variables include time in seconds given to political parties and political leaders. Also measured was time given to election issues including: education, environment, health, industrial relations and taxation. Prominence of the news bulletin in the news (x10 for lead story; 9 for second story in the bulletin; 8 for third story…1 for 10th or lower story) was used to generate "weighted seconds." The combined weighted seconds on any given leader/party/issue for a given day in the campaign generated "weighted days" measures. All news sessions for during the campaign for the targeted channels were captured. There were NO missing bulletins.

本数据集为2007年大选竞选电视新闻报道文件，是对David Denemark（1998年）以及David Denemark、Clive Bean（昆士兰科技大学）与Ian Ward（昆士兰大学）2001年采集的多组电视新闻报道数据集的延伸。本项目旨在探究澳大利亚大选竞选的电视新闻报道现状，量化各政党、政党领袖及竞选议题在电视新闻中的播报时长。本次采集范围涵盖2007年联邦大选竞选期间的全国新闻联播，以及布里斯班与珀斯的地方新闻。该研究曾分别于1998年和2001年开展。本研究依据2007年澳大利亚选举研究（ADA No. 1120）中的分类标准，对12项竞选议题及10项其他议题的报道情况进行计量。本文件对应第七频道（Channel 7）布里斯班晚间6点档的新闻报道内容。本次采集的变量包括分配给各政党、政党领袖的播报时长（单位：秒）。同时统计了各类竞选议题的播报时长，涵盖教育、环境、医疗、劳资关系与税收等领域。新闻条目在播报单中的优先级被用于生成“加权秒数”指标：头条新闻权重为10，第二条为9，第三条为8……第十条及以后条目权重为1。针对竞选周期内单日中某位领袖、政党或议题的总加权秒数，可进一步计算得到“加权天数”指标。本数据集完整收录了目标频道在竞选期间的所有新闻时段内容，无任何新闻联播缺失。