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Celebrity Drug Scandals, Media Double Standards

2013; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 12; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1177/1536504213511214

1537-6052

Rebecca Tiger,

Climate Change Communication and Perception

Media coverage reflects the conflicted status of drugs in a culture that both valorizes and demonizes their use. Sociologist Rebecca Tiger compares New York Times' coverage of Whitney Houston’s death and cyclist Lance Armstrong’s “performance enhancing drugs” scandal. Her analysis reveals the particular roles that race and gender play in how elite media and their readers negotiate and construct the morality tale of drug use.