Almost twenty-five years ago, Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder
first documented a series of sophisticated and innovative experiments
that unobtrusively altered the order and emphasis of news stories in
selected television broadcasts. Their resulting book News That
Matters, now hailed as a classic by scholars of political science and
public opinion alike, is here updated for the twenty-first century,
with a new preface and epilogue by the authors. Backed by careful
analysis of public opinion surveys, the authors show how, despite
changing American politics, those issues that receive extended
coverage in the national news become more important to viewers, while
those that are ignored lose credibility. Moreover, those issues that
are prominent in the news stream continue to loom more heavily as
criteria for evaluating the president and for choosing between
political candidates. “News That Matters does matter, because it
demonstrates conclusively that television newscasts powerfully affect
opinion. . . . All that follows, whether it supports, modifies, or
challenges their conclusions, will have to begin here.”—The Public
Interest
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ISBN
9780226388601
Publisert
2018
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University of Chicago Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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