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Peer reviewedRiffe, Daniel – Journalism Quarterly, 1990
Surveys 82 Alabama legislators and finds officials' views of the press as adversary or agent of consensus relates to perceived value of media for job-relevant information. Suggests a dysfunction of the "watch-dog" role because those believing the consensus model found the press more useful than those seeing the press as an adversary. (MG)
Descriptors: Information Sources, Legislators, Mass Media Effects, Mass Media Role
Download full textAssociation for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. – 1992
The Politics and Mass Media section of the proceedings contains the following eight papers: "Politics and the War on Drugs: Patterns of News Coverage" (Lisa Brockmeier); "The Challenge of Bearing Witness in Political Reporting: Making the Public Conversational Partners" (Karon Reinboth Speckman); "The Concrete-Avoidance…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries, Mass Media, Mass Media Effects
