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Presents the life and career of the movie actor who was born Nicolas Kim Coppola. ... Read more

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Title: People in the News.(Brief Article)
Publication: Rubber World (Magazine/Journal)
Date: April 1, 2000
Publisher: Lippincott & Peto, Inc.
Volume: 222Issue: 1Page: 61

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This digital document is an article from Catholic Insight, published by Catholic Insight on March 1, 2003. The length of the article is 369 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Mugabe starving his people. (News in Brief: Zimbabwe).(Robert Mugabe)
Publication: Catholic Insight (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2003
Publisher: Catholic Insight
Volume: 11Issue: 2Page: 27(1)

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Who are U.S. journalists? What are their backgrounds and educational experiences? Why did they choose journalism as an occupation? What do they think about their work? What are their professional and ethical values? What kinds of work do they consider their best? Do men differ from women on these questions? Do ethnic and racial minorities differ from the majority? Do journalists working for different print and broadcast news media differ?

This book uses findings from the most comprehensive and representative study ever done of the demographic and educational backgrounds, working conditions, and professional and ethical values of 1,410 U.S. print and broadcast journalists working in the 1990s to answer these questions, including separate analyses for women and minority news people. It also compares many of these findings with those from the major studies of the early 1970s and 1980s. As such, it should be the standard reference on U.S. journalists for years to come.

In addition, this study goes beyond the previous two in adding more open-ended questions to explain and enrich quantitative findings, in the belief that the numbers by themselves are not enough to provide explanations for the patterns that emerge. This book includes more of the journalists' own words to fill this gap, as well as an analysis of samples of their self-selected best work.
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How people use media information: A success story
Doris Graber's work on political communication has been a major contribution to political science. In this book, she uses an interview methodto get at several key questions, such as: What parts of media information arouses people's attention? What is ignored? How do Americans make decisions using media information?

Graber uses an interview technique to ascertain people's use of political information. Groups are defined in terms of (a) level of interest in politics (high, low) and (b) access to media information (easy or not so easy) (a chart on page 12 illustrates). Among subjects considered in the various chapters: information supply; selecting news to process and, perhaps, to store; learning from information; processing information; developing categories.

In the end, her results are hopeful. As she puts it (pages 215-216): ". . .the findings presented in this study confirm that average Americans can successfully scrutinize the merits of people and policies from a variety of perspectives. . .Average people know how to accept and reject information, and they are, therefore, not likely to be manipulated into large-scale acceptance of schemas that conflict with the basic tenets of American culture." And the results are hopeful indeed. . .
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This book presents two empirical studies of the effect of the media on politics. The Coombs analysis concentrates on the phenomenon of persuasion, demonstrating that newspaper editorials can indeed make a difference in voters' evaluations of candidates. MacKuen's study provides evidence that the media make an important contribution to determining what the public is concerned about.

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Title: In memoriam: John Attarian (1956-2004).(economist and writer)(Obituary)
Author: James E., Jr. Person
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Date: March 22, 2005
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Title: Consensus conferences and the `people's enlightenment': the Danish government's involvement of laypeople in technological issues presents a model of functioning democracy. (against the current).(Brief Article)
Author: Sharon Beder
Publication: Arena Magazine (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 2002
Publisher: Arena Printing and Publications Pty. Ltd.
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