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Iyengar, Shanto.

News that matters : television and American opinion / Shanto Iyengar & Donald R. Kinder. - Updated ed. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2010. - x, 202 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Chicago studies in American politics . - Chicago studies in American politics. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

A primordial power? -- Pathways to knowledge: experimentation and the analysis of television's power -- The agenda-setting effect -- Vivid cases and lead stories -- Personal predicaments and national problems -- Victims of agenda-setting -- The priming effect -- Priming and presidential character -- Priming and presidential responsibility -- Victims of priming -- Electoral consequences of priming -- News that matters.

ISBN: 9780226388588 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226388581 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2010015350

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Television broadcasting of news--Political aspects--United States.
Television broadcasting of news--Psychological aspects.--United States
Television and politics--United States.
Public opinion--United States.

LC Class. No.: PN4888.T4 / I94 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 302.2/345