Sex, lies, and war : how soft news brings foreign policy to the inattentive public
By: BAUM, Matthew A
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ArticlePublisher: mar.2002American Political Science Review 96, 1, p. 91-110Abstract: This study argues that, due to selective political coverage by entertainment-oriented, soft news media, many otherwise politically inattentive individuals are exposed to information about high-profile political issues, most prominently foreign policy crises, as an incidental by-product of seeking entertainment. I conduct a series of statistical investigations examining the relationship between individual media consumption and a ttentiveness to several recent high-profile foreign policy crisis issues. For purposes of comparison, I also invetigate several non-foreign crisis issues, some of which possess characteristics appealing to soft news programs and others of which lack such characteristics. If find that information about foreign crises, and other issues possessing similar characteristics, presented in a soft news constexts, has indeed attracted the attention of politically uninvolved Americans. The net effect is a reduced disparity in attentiveness to select high-profile political issues across different segment of the public
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This study argues that, due to selective political coverage by entertainment-oriented, soft news media, many otherwise politically inattentive individuals are exposed to information about high-profile political issues, most prominently foreign policy crises, as an incidental by-product of seeking entertainment. I conduct a series of statistical investigations examining the relationship between individual media consumption and a ttentiveness to several recent high-profile foreign policy crisis issues. For purposes of comparison, I also invetigate several non-foreign crisis issues, some of which possess characteristics appealing to soft news programs and others of which lack such characteristics. If find that information about foreign crises, and other issues possessing similar characteristics, presented in a soft news constexts, has indeed attracted the attention of politically uninvolved Americans. The net effect is a reduced disparity in attentiveness to select high-profile political issues across different segment of the public
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