- A 17-year (2000-2016) study was conducted to see the trends in media reporting in print and online on modern crop biotechnology.
- Dramatic events such as uprooting of biotech crops on field trials increased the interest of the journalists to write about biotech.
- Government officials have been the primary source of information in the articles on biotechnology for the past 17 years.
- Positive articles increased from 41% (2000-2009) to 59% (2010-2016)
- There was a significant shift in the use of governance to social progress in framing articles.
- There was decrease in use of fear metaphors, and increase in use of metaphors depicting potential or promise.
