PURPOSE Political elections, especially presidential elections, have a tendency to overshadow other events, including disasters. Response to disasters during elections, such as Hurricane Matthew and the Baton Rouge flooding in 2016, are often dependent on attention given to them from the media, as well as prominent political figures and political candidates candidates. The purpose of this paper is to explore how election cycles affect government response to disasters and ultimately demonstrate the dependency of crisis communication on media agenda-setting for presenting saliency of disaster risk and needs. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH Responses from presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, as well as President Barack Obama, in regards to the Baton Rouge flooding and Hurricane Matthew, were observed using media reports and social media accounts. These results were matched with key events from the presidential election timeline. FINDINGS There is a positive relationship between news exposure and attention, and also between attention and civic response. In regards to the 2016 presidential election, news coverage of the release of the Donald Trump-Billy Bush tape distracted national attention from the approach, landfall, and recovery of Hurricane Matthew. Information subsidies provided by the candidates directed the media agenda away from the needs of the communities and individuals impacted by these disasters. ORIGINALITY/VALUE Disasters are often assumed to be value-free because they are "blind to politics." Here, it is argued that this was not the case in relation to these two disasters. Thus, the authors encouraged more research be conducted to clarify the impact that political elections have on strategic news coverage of disasters and ultimately on disaster response.

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选举、新闻周期和对灾难的关注。

目的 政治选举，尤其是总统选举，往往会掩盖其他事件，包括灾难。对选举期间的灾难（例如 2016 年飓风马修和巴吞鲁日洪水）的反应通常取决于媒体以及著名政治人物和政治候选人对灾难的关注。本文的目的是探讨选举周期如何影响政府对灾害的反应，并最终证明危机沟通对媒体议程设置的依赖性，以呈现灾害风险和需求的显着性。设计/方法/方法总统候选人唐纳德特朗普和希拉里克林顿以及巴拉克奥巴马总统关于巴吞鲁日洪水和飓风马修的回应，使用媒体报道和社交媒体帐户观察到。这些结果与总统选举时间表中的关键事件相匹配。调查结果 新闻曝光率与关注度之间存在正相关关系，关注度与公民反应之间也存在正相关关系。关于 2016 年总统大选，有关唐纳德·特朗普-比利·布什录音带发布的新闻报道分散了全国对马修飓风的逼近、登陆和恢复的注意力。候选人提供的信息补贴使媒体议程远离受这些灾害影响的社区和个人的需求。原创性/价值 灾难通常被认为是没有价值的，因为它们“对政治视而不见”。在这里，有人争辩说，与这两场灾难有关的情况并非如此。因此，