When Helis Oil & Gas Company announced it was interested in drilling for oil in Louisianas St. Tammany Parish, it ignited a firestorm. The proposed drilling project would use hydraulic fracturing or fracking causing some residents to voice their concerns for the parishs wellbeing. My thesis looks to framing theory to analyze how local media covered the issue, as well as the effects those frames might have on public policy and the lawsuits that arose out of the proposed drilling operation. I performed quantitative and qualitative content analyses of local media coverage of this issue from April 2014 through December 2014. I found that the media focused the most on the public backlash frame. The media coverage showed that public opinion has already had an impact on public policy; it could also influence litigation in this matter.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LSU/oai:etd.lsu.edu:etd-04112015-223252 |
| Date | 03 May 2015 |
| Creators | Rabalais, Lindsay Colleen |
| Contributors | DeFleur, Margaret, Broussard, Jinx, Reynolds, Amy |
| Publisher | LSU |
| Source Sets | Louisiana State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-04112015-223252/ |
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