Taking the public by storm: Information, cuing, and the democratic process in the gulf conflict

For whom the gates open: News reporting and government source patterns in the United States, Great Britain, and Russia

“…As noted earlier, a study by Entman and Page (1994) of Bush administration Gulf War policy activities found that administration voices dominated the news even during periods of peak congressional opposition. Similar findings emerged in a study by Bennett and Manheim (1993).…”

Assessing the Democratic Debate: How the News Media Frame Elite Policy Discourse

“…In contrast to previous researchers (Bennett, 1990;Bennett & Manheim, 1993;Zaller & Chiu, 1996), network coverage of the gun control issue did not seem to follow official (i.e., congressional) opinion. In a similar vein, interest group input did not influence media frames.…”

“…Whereas foreign policy crises such as the Iraqi-Gulf War sustained little elite opposition (e.g., Bennett & Manheim, 1993), the political parties have staked out divergent positions on this issue (e.g., Spitzer, 1995), giving the press an important institutional power bloc for representing congressional opposition. 16 In short, despite the range of interpretive elite frames surrounding the debate on gun control, the media, perhaps due to a desire to operate competitively in a ratings-driven environment in which drama and sensationalism sells, chose to selectively adopt other players' message inputs or create their own media-generated version of the debate.…”

Accidents, icons, and indexing: The dynamics of news coverage of police use of force

“…Following the methodology employed by Bennett (1990) and by Bennett and Manheim (1993), all entries in the Los Angeles Times (LAT) Index pertaining to police use of force were examined. Given the brevity of Index entries, the data reported here are best regarded as indicative of the relative prominence of voices and views, rather than as measures of the absolute number of such voices and views in the news.…”