The scholarly literature on Fox News has largely focused on the network’s ideological disposition, assuming Fox News to be a journalistic operation. However, a handful of scholars have challenged those assumptions. Conway, Grabe, and Grieve found one of the network’s prime-time programs to be practicing propaganda, not journalism. This article seeks to further the work of Conway et al. by employing a qualitative textual analysis of Fox News’ prime-time coverage of health-care reform in 2009 and 2014 to determine whether the network’s programs worked within the traditional values of objective journalism, aside from the network’s ideological disposition, or whether the programs’ practices were more consistent with propaganda or the rhetorical concept of persuasion. The study finds that in both periods, Fox News’ prime-time programs employed multiple themes based on nonfactual premises to oppose health-care reform, which were more in line with propaganda than journalism or persuasion.

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宣传、说服还是新闻？

福克斯新闻的学术文献主要集中在网络的意识形态倾向上，假设福克斯新闻是一个新闻机构。然而，少数学者对这些假设提出了挑战。Conway、Grabe 和 Grieve 发现该网络的黄金时段节目之一是在练习宣传，而不是新闻。本文旨在进一步推进 Conway 等人的工作。通过对福克斯新闻在 2009 年和 2014 年的医疗改革黄金时段报道进行定性文本分析，以确定该网络的节目是否在客观新闻的传统价值观范围内运作，除了网络的意识形态倾向，或者这些节目是否符合客观新闻的传统价值观。实践更符合宣传或说服的修辞概念。研究发现，在这两个时期，