Howse et al. [1] examined ‘news media’ coverage of Sydney's two liquor licence reforms (‘last drinks’ and ‘lockouts’) implemented in February 2014. The authors analysed 445 articles published between 2014 and 2020, including in the data corpus news articles from journalists, but also opinion pieces from other stakeholders. They identified 435 unique actors mentioned in the articles, categorised the actors' views as supportive or opposed to the laws, and distinguished 12 main categories of the argument made by the most frequently quoted actors. Framed as a content analysis, the article's implicit purpose is to support public health actors' media communication strategies by using media to ‘communicate and build support for preventive health policies’ [1: p. 573]. This has us thinking about what it might mean to ‘use’ media.

豪斯等人。[ 1 ] 研究了“新闻媒体”对 2014 年 2 月实施的悉尼两项酒牌改革（“最后一杯”和“停工”）的报道。作者分析了 2014 年至 2020 年间发表的 445 篇文章，包括来自记者的数据语料库新闻文章，还有来自其他利益相关者的意见。他们确定了文章中提到的 435 位独特的行为者，将行为者的观点分类为支持或反对法律，并区分了最常被引用的行为者提出的 12 种主要论点。作为内容分析，文章的隐含目的是通过使用媒体“传播和建立对预防性卫生政策的支持”来支持公共卫生参与者的媒体传播策略[ 1：页。573]。这让我们思考“使用”媒体可能意味着什么。