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Who Gets the News? Alternative Measures of News Reception and Their Implications for Research

Price, Vincent, Zaller, John·1993·Public Opinion Quarterly
DOI 10.1086/269363
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This article investigates patterns in audience reception of 16 news stories that received prominent media coverage in the summer and fall of 1989. Using a national sample of American adults, it compares education, self-reported rates of media use, interpersonal communication, and prior levels of general political knowledge as predictors of individual differences in recall of current news events. Results indicate that respondents' background level of political knowledge is the strongest and most consistent predictor of current news story recall across a wide range of topics, suggesting that there is indeed a general audience for news and that this audience is quite sharply stratified by preexisting levels of background knowledge. Thus, in survey research applications that require estimates of individual differences in the reception of potentially influential political communications, a measure of general prior knowledge—not a measure of news media use—is likely to be the most effective indicator. The article further concludes that the tendency of individuals to acquire news and information on a domain- or topic-specific basis fails to undermine the value of political knowledge as a general measure of propensity for news recall.

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Authors
Price, V., & Zaller, J.
Venue
Public Opinion Quarterly
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
1993
Volume
57
Issue
2
Pages
133
ISSN
0033-362X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1086/269363
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708
References
19
FWCI
50.60
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journal article
Language
en
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