The Effect of Press-Political Party Relationship on Framing: The Content Analysis of the Korean Media Tax Investigations in 1994 and 2001.

This study examines how two ideologically different groups of two Korean newspapers reacted to two different ideological situations involving tax investigations of newspapers in 1994 and 2001. The content analysis of this study focuses on two different relationships between newspapers and political parties surrounding the tax investigations: One is the dissonant relationship in 1994, when conservative newspapers and a liberal party were against the tax investigation and liberal newspapers and a conservative party were in favor of the investigation; the other is consonant relationship in 2001, when conservative newspapers and a conservative party, or liberal newspapers and a liberal party were in same positions regarding another tax investigation. According to the results of the analysis, two groups of newspapers kept their positions firmly in favor of or against the tax investigation regardless of switched policies of political parties that are ideologically similar to them. However, the opinions of two groups of newspapers were opinions more polarized to their positions in the consonant situation than the dissonant situation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]