Gulf Papers' Oil Spill Coverage Differs from National Dailies

A content analysis challenges the notion that elite newspapers can speak for local dailies. Gulf dailies focused on the environment until the well was capped and then shifted to the local economy, while the national dailies focused on the accident.

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