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Individual and Routine Forces in Gatekeeping
Abstract
Lewin's concept of “force” is explored in this study, which shows support for the proposition that newspaper gatekeeping is influenced more by forces on the routine level of analysis than by individual staff writers' characteristics. Newspaper stories about fifty Congressional bills were content analyzed, and two surveys were conducted of the stories' writers and of editors at their newspapers. No individual-level force was related to the quantity of coverage the bills received, whereas editors' aggregated assessment of bills' newsworthiness was positively related to quantity of bills' newspaper coverage.
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- Authors
- Shoemaker, P. J., Eichholz, M., Kim, E., & Wrigley, B.
- Venue
- Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2001-06
- Volume
- 78
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 233-246
- ISSN
- 1077-6990 (ISSN-L)
- 2161-430X
- OpenAlex
- W2089347156
- Cited by
- 390
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 9.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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