The Issues of the Sixties: An Exploratory Study in the Dynamics of Public Opinion

1973/01/01 by G. Ray Funkhouser · 466 citations
Arts and Humanities · #American Political and Social Dynamics #Dynamics (music) #Exploratory research #Law #Mass media #Media coverage #Media studies #News media #Political science #Politics #Public opinion #Public relations #Social science #Sociology

paper · doi:10.1086/268060

published in Public Opinion Quarterly 37(1), 62 (Oxford University Press)

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Abstract

This article relates news media coverage of major issues in the 1960's to public opinion and to the realities underlying those issues. It challenges some major assumptions—for example, that the media provide a useful picture of what is “really” going on—and discusses implications for policymakers and future research.

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