Do people read everything they believe in the papers?: Newspapers and voters in the 1983 and 1987 elections

Newton, Kenneth

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“…74-86;Dunleavy & Husbands, 1985, pp. 110-117;Harrop, 1987;Miller, 1991;Newton, 1992;Saunders, Marsh, & Ward, 1993;Curtice & Semetko, 1994;Franklin, 1994;Linton, 1995;Gavin, Saunders, & Farrell, 1996;Gavin, 1997; for work in the United States, see Erikson, 1976;Coombs, 1981;Bartels, 1993;Zaller, 1996, pp. 121-135;Dalton, Beck, & Huckfeldt, 1998).…”

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confidence: 98%

The National Press and Voting Turnout: British General Elections of 1992 and 1997

Brynin¹,

Newton²

2003

Political Communication

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Section: Reinforcement and Cross Pressuresmentioning

confidence: 98%

The National Press and Voting Turnout: British General Elections of 1992 and 1997

Brynin¹,

Newton²

2003

Political Communication

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“…As such, we estimate two models: model one estimates news source as English versus Spanish and model two estimates news source as both English and Spanish versus English. Below is the first stage of the simultaneous equations model: Newton (1992) discusses a similar concern for newspaper use and voting in the 1983 and 1987 British elections. 18 Refer to the appendix for the model specification.…”

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Examining the Link Between Issue Attitudes and News Source: The Case of Latinos and Immigration Reform

2008

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This paper explores whether an individual's news source can explain their attitudes on immigration. We focus on the Spanish-speaking population in the U.S., since they have the option of accessing their news in English, Spanish or in both languages. Our audience influence hypothesis predicts that Spanish-language news will cover immigration in a more positive and informative manner than will English-language news. Thus, Latinos who use Spanish-language news may have a higher likelihood of possessing pro-immigrant sentiments than Latinos who only use English-language news. Content analysis of Spanish and English-language television news segments reveals variations in the tone and substance of these news outlets. Analysis of Latino survey respondents indicates that immigration attitudes vary by news source. Generational status also influences Latinos' immigration attitudes, though its impact is not as great as one's news source.

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“…However, they also observed a similar, if less pronounced change among Daily Mirror readers and those who read no newspaper at all (Miller et al , 1990, p. 89). Newton (1992) went on to argue that, if we look at the 1983 and 1987 elections, a correlation between press readership and vote is evident, even after we control for the public's political attitudes, and he suggested that this is potent evidence of press influence. Although these studies form a more plausible basis for press influence than Harrop's deductive approach, they belong to an era when the political climate and the political positioning of the newspapers were quite different from what they were at the end of the twentieth century or are at the beginning of the twenty‐first.…”

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The Press and its Influence on British Political Attitudes under New Labour

Gavin

Sanders

2003

Political Studies

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To explore the impact of the press in Britain during the first New Labour administration, we used aggregate-level analysis to assess the relationship between the economic content of press and changes in the public's political and economic attitudes. We examine the effects on attitudes of economic coverage in the broadsheets, 'black top' and tabloid newspapers. The results suggest that the broadsheets and 'black tops' do exert an influence on voters' views, whereas the tabloids do not. The impact is, however, not global, but confined to particular segments of the population. The modest effects we have charted, nevertheless have important cumulative political significance in the medium-to long-term, and they put press influence into sharper and more realistic perspective than many current accounts. Methodologically our results suggest the need for further work to focus on press effects on specific groups of voters.Central to contemporary Britain politics is the relationship between the media and the political parties. The media lavish considerable attention on the personalities, policies and practices of national politicians, and, in turn, political parties expend a great deal of energy on media relations, image management and 'spin doctoring' (McNair, 2000). A central but largely unspoken assumption here is that the media in general, and the partisan press in particular, have either a potential or actual impact on the way the public think about and evaluate the political parties. But for those engaged in research in the area of 'media influence', this assumption is contested, and some contend that the evidence is too sketchy and the results too contradictory to make a definitive call on the overall potency of the press (Corner, 2000). Researchers have stopped asking whether the media generally, or the newspapers in particular, do or do not have an impact. Instead, they have begun to look at the complex and often situationally contingent relationship between media coverage and the public's political preferences.The question remains: what precisely are these contingencies and what can we say about the potency, or otherwise, of particular news messages? We sought to address these issues through the analysis of the aggregate relationship between newspaper output and changes in the public's political attitudes. The results show a complex pattern of influence. They suggest that there is still room for the notion that, in some clearly defined circumstances and for some important segments of the population, particular newspaper groups (though not all) make a significant contribution to the formation of public opinion.

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Do people read everything they believe in the papers?: Newspapers and voters in the 1983 and 1987 elections

Cited by 8 publications

References 9 publications

The National Press and Voting Turnout: British General Elections of 1992 and 1997

The National Press and Voting Turnout: British General Elections of 1992 and 1997

Examining the Link Between Issue Attitudes and News Source: The Case of Latinos and Immigration Reform

The Press and its Influence on British Political Attitudes under New Labour

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