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The present study examines the issue of news content and coverage of an environmental disaster in the mass and the alternative media. It was hypothesized that content varied according to the differences in media type. Results suggested that differences in media do have impact on coverage of environmental events. This study is a qualitative analysis of corporation's, government official's, military commander's and community citizens' framing of environmental stories to construct social narratives in the media. To better understand the various views presented in printed and televised media, a triangulation method incorporating information from network nightly news, local printed news, local video recorded interviews, and local public town meetings was used.