Effect of Reporter Predisposition in Covering Controversial Story

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly

Volumn 54, Issue 1, 1972, Pages 120-125

  Starck, Kenneth ^a   Soloski, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

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EID: 84972614098     PISSN: 10776990     EISSN: 2161430X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/107769907705400117     Document Type: Article

References (23)

1. See Ithiel De Sola Pool and Irwin Shulman, “Newsmen's Fantasies, Audiences, and Newswriting,” and Walter Gieber, “News Is What Newpapermen Make It,” in Lewis Anthony Dexter and David Manning White, eds., People, Society, and Mass Communications (New York: The Free Press of Glencoe, 1964), pp. 141-59 and pp. 173-82.
2. Also, Bradley S. Greenberg and Percy H. Tannenbaum, “Communicator Performance under Cognitive Stress,” JOURNALISM QUARTERLY, 39: 169-78 (Spring 1962)
3. Jean S. Kerrick, Thomas E. Anderson and Luita B. Swales, “Balance and the Writer's Attitude in News Stories and Editorials,” JOURNALISM QUARTERLY, 41: 207-15 (Spring 1964)
4. Dan G. Drew. “Reporters' Attitudes, Expected Meetings with Source and Journalistic Objectivity,” JOURNALISM QUARTERLY, 52:219-24 ff. (Summer 1975).
5. John W.C. Johnstone, Edward J. Slawski, and William W. Bowman, “The Professional Values of American Newsmen,” Public Opinion Quarterly, 36:523 (1972).
6. Morris Janowitz, “Professional Models in Journalism: the Gatekeeper and the Advocate,” JOURNALISM QUARTERLY, 52:618 (Winter 1975).
7. For additional discussion of the two models, see John C. Merrill, The Imperative of Freedom (New York: Hastings House, 1974)
8. Bernard Roshco, Newsmaking (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1975).
9. Kerrick, Anderson and Swales.
10. Drew, p. 224.
11. The Daily Iowan reported Feb. 24, 1975, in a student opinion poll that 65% of the 209 students interviewed disapproved of the use of mandatory student fees to pay Dean; 77% believed the fee was “too high.” The day prior to Dean's speech, the newspaper editorially opposed the use of student fees to pay Dean. Students in letters to the editor also called for a boycott and picketing of Dean's speech.
12. Johnstone, Slawski, and Bowman, pp. 526-9.
13. These attributes came from several reporting texts, including Ralph Izard, Hugh Culbertson and Donald Lambert, Fundamentais of News Reporting, 2nd ed. (Dubuque, Iowa: Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company. 1973)
14. John Hohenberg, The Professional Journalist, 2nd ed. (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc., 1969).
15. See also J. Herbert Altschult and Edna Einsiedel, “Study shows newswriting difficult to judge objectively,” Journalism Educator, 30:43-47 (April 1973)
16. An elaboration and refinement of evaluation procedures appear in Kenneth Starck and John Soloski, “Feedback Profile: A Project to Help Student Writers,” paper presented at annual convention of the Association for Education in Journalism, College Park, Md., July 31-Aug. 4, 1976.
17. B.J. Winer, Statistical Principles in Experimental Design, 2nd ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1971), pp. 261-71.
18. E.g., see Kerrick, Anderson and Swales, pp. 207-13
19. Timothy Crouse, The Boys on the Bus (New York: Ballantine Books, 1972), pp. 355-8.
20. Janowitz, p. 621.
21. See Louis M. Lyons, “The Business of Writing” in Louis M. Lyons, ed., Reporting the News (Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press, 1965), pp. 292-301.
22. Richard W. Budd, Robert K. Thorp and Lewis Donohew, Content Analysis of Communications (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1967), pp. 66-8.
23. Sidney Siegel, Nonparametric Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences (New York; McGraw-Hill Book Company. Inc., 1956), pp. 213-9.