Fig. 1
From: Evaluating the long-term portrayal of antibiotic resistance in major U.S. newspapers
News articles in the NYT and LAT corpuses pertaining to antibiotic resistance increased over time and frequently used threat-related terms. Trendlines show the least squares line of best fit using regression weighted by the number of articles in each decade. Selected quotes containing terms included in the threat dictionary (bold) show that the depiction of resistance as a major threat to the public dates back nearly to the discovery of antibiotics