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Agenda
Media Support for the Healthcare Reform in Russia: Framing as a Tool of Analysis
(based on research materials)
© Olga S. Mironova
PhD degree-seeking student at the Chair of Periodical Press, Faculty of Journalism, Lomonos-
ov Moscow State University; Senior Lecturer at the Military University of the Ministry of Defense
of the Russian Federation (Moscow, Russia), post5-127@mail.ru
Abstract
The healthcare reform has always been a big debating point in the Russian media land-
scape. The paper highlights the results of a research into the media support for the law “On
the Foundations of Healthcare for Citizens of the Russian Federation” in the Rossiyskaya
Gazeta and Meditsinskaya Gazeta newspapers.
The author’s scientific interests was not confined to the task of evaluating media per-
formance in this particular context since the analysis of the given information campaign
makes it possible to extrapolate the conclusions obtained to other social spheres in which
unsolved problems accumulate. The research was based on the theory of framing and
the interpretation of frames as indicators of publications’ information policy and social
position. The framing analysis showed that the framing technologies of both newspapers
basically coincide, while the framing content is verified by the newspapers’ information
strategies. Rossiyskaya Gazeta featured the discussion of the law as a movement from
criticisms to a consensus between the authors of the document and public at large while
Meditsinskaya Gazeta primarily emphasized the critical attitudes to the law of the medical
community and potential patients. Generally speaking, the results of the research indicate
that the press predicted the strengthening of negative trends in healthcare resulting from
the adoption of the new law. In addition, the research revealed insufficient effectiveness
of newspapers’ information strategies in presenting this subject matter and showed that
in the area of social issues Russian media have not yet become a channel of productive
communication between bodies of state power and citizens.
Keywords
: healthcare reform, media support, framing, consensus, criticism.
Notes
Izvestiya
. 2015. September.
Kommersant”.
2015. September.
Komsomol’skaya pravda
. 2015. September.
Meditsinskaya gazeta
. 2011. January, June – August, December.
Moskovskiy komsomolets
. 2015. September.
Nezavisimaya gazeta
. 2015. September.
Rossiyskaya gazeta
. 2011. April – November; 2015. September.
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