Commentators have observed a “discourse of derision” in news coverage of the US education system, but the contours of this discourse are not well understood. This article pairs quantitative content analysis with qualitative framing analysis to sharpen the conceptual and empirical focus of the discourse of derision as an object of study. We theorize four components of this discourse—tone, assessments of quality, teacher voice, and criticism of teachers—and analyze them in a representative sample (n = 602) of broadcast television evening news stories from 1990 to 2015. Our findings reveal that the discourse of derision is a common but not overwhelming feature of television news, occurring primarily through negativity in tone and assessments of quality.

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教育新闻报道中的“嘲笑话语”：新兴框架的混合方法分析

评论家们在美国教育系统的新闻报道中观察到了“嘲笑话语”，但这种话语的轮廓并没有得到很好的理解。本文将定量内容分析与定性框架分析相结合，以突出嘲笑话语作为研究对象的概念和经验焦点。我们将这种话语的四个组成部分——语气、质量评估、教师声音和对教师的批评——进行了理论化，并在 1990 年至 2015 年广播电视晚间新闻报道的代表性样本 (n = 602) 中对其进行了分析。我们的研究结果表明嘲笑话语是电视新闻的一个常见但并非压倒性的特征，主要通过语气和质量评估的消极性而发生。