Bad News, Bad Governance

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Volumn 546, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 97-108

  Patterson, Thomas E ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0039056339     PISSN: 00027162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0002716296546001009     Document Type: Article

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2. Edith Efron, The News Twisters (Los Angeles: Nash, 1971), p. 47.
3. “No Newt Is Good Newt,” p. 2.
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5. “The Honeymoon That Wasn't,” Media Monitor (Center for Media and Public Affairs), pp. 2-3 (Sept.-Oct. 1993).
6. David H. Weaver and G. Cleveland Wilhoit, The American Journalist, 2d ed. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986), p. 29; S. Robert Lichter and Stanley Rothman, “Media and Business Elites,” Public Opinion, p. 42 (Oct.-Nov. 1981).
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8. “No Newt Is Good Newt,” p. 2.
9. “The Honeymoon That Wasn't,” p. 4.
10. Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report, 31 Dec. 1994, p. 3620.
11. Thomas E. Patterson, Out of Order (New York: Vintage, 1994), p. 245.
12. Austin Ranney, Channels of Power (New York: Basic Books, 1983), pp. 52-55.
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14. Paul Weaver, “Is Television News Biased?” Public Interest, 27: 69 (1972).
15. Quoted in Michael Robinson and Margaret Sheehan, Over the Wire and on TV (New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1983), p. 226.
16. Patterson, Out of Order, p. 82.
17. Weaver, “Is Television News Biased?” pp. 67-69.
18. “Clinton's the One,” Media Monitor (Center for Media and Public Affairs), p. 2 (Nov. 1992).
19. Catherine A. Steele and Kevin G. Barnhurst, “The Growing Dominance of Opinionated Journalism in U.S. Presidential Campaign Television Coverage, 1968 and 1988” (Paper delivered at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 25-30 May 1995), p. 6.
20. Quoted in Max Kampelman, “The Power of the Press,” Policy Review, 7: 18 (Fall 1978).
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23. Paul Taylor, See How They Run (New York: Knopf, 1990), p. 23.
24. See Larry Sabato, Feeding Frenzy: How Attack Journalism Has Changed American Politics (New York: Free Press, 1991).
25. Michael Robinson, “Improving Election Information in Media” (Paper delivered at Voting for Democracy Forum, Washington, DC, Sept. 1983), p. 2.
26. Gerald Pomper with Susan Lederman, Elections in America (New York: Dodd, Mead, 1976), chap. 8. See also Michael G. Krukones, Promises and Performance: Presidential Campaigns as Policy Predictors (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984); Ian Budge and Richard I. Hofferbert, “Mandates and Policy Outputs: U.S. Party Platforms and Federal Expenditures,” American Political Science Review, 84: 111-132 (1990); Jeff Fishel, Presidents and Promises (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Press, 1985), pp. 38, 42-43.
27. Patterson, Out of Order, p. 20.
28. Meg Greenfield, “The Anxiety of Choosing Sides,” Newsweek, 20 Oct. 1980, p. 108.
29. George Will, “Debates Keep Them of the Streets,” Syracuse Post-Standard, 15 Oct. 1992.
30. Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion (1922; reprint ed., New York: Free Press, 1965), p. 229.
31. Quoted in Edward Jay Epstein, News from Nowhere (New York: Random House, 1973), p. ix.
32. “No Newt Is Good Newt,” p. 2.