Something Bothering, Something Real: Four Press on Immigration.

News content, as both a manifestation and source of culture, has important implications for social change. Four press-the Austin American-Statesman (mainstream), the Austin Chronicle (alternative) and leading ethnic press, including HispanicBusiness.com (Latino) and the Los Angeles Wave (Afro American) - are comparatively analyzed. Framing theory blends with a news narrative approach to quantify and qualify immigration election period news coverage similarities and differences. Broader political, social and cultural forces inform a media sociological approach to news, resulting in 5 umbrella findings. Information Connection, Escapist Tactic, Dichotomies, Uncomfortables and History, Revisited, are chronicles and stories these 4 press tell regarding immigration. Areas of additional research include deeper analyses of reporter and source gender and ethnicity, along with themes of race and class as well as political actor roles. Questions of identity and action burn blue-flame social fires. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]