Uncovering Rape: The Watchdog Press and the Limits of Agenda Setting

Protess, David; Leff, D.R.; Brooks, Stephen; Gordon, Margaret S.

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“…While economists have largely ignored mass media's role in politics, political scientists have mainly been concerned with its effect on voting behavior and public opinion. 2 The few earlier empirical investigations of media effects on policy are mainly case studies, conducted by political scientists and journalists, of how the publication of particular news stories affected policy making; see Cook et al (1983) and Protess et al (1985). In contrast, this paper studies how the access to a mass medium, the radio, affected peoples ability to attract government funds.…”

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Radio's Impact on Public Spending

Strömberg

2004

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

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If informed voters receive favorable policies, then the invention of a new mass medium may affect government policies since it affects who is informed and who is not. These ideas are developed in a voting model. The model forms the basis for an empirical investigation of a major New Deal relief program implemented in the middle of the expansion period of the radio. The main empirical finding is that US counties with many radio listeners received more relief funds. More funds were allocated to poor counties with high unemployment, but controlling for these and other variables, the effects of the radio are large and highly significant. If other government funds were distributed in a similar fashion, then the introduction of the radio led to a major shift in government policies.

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“…27 Radio data collected from the on voter turnout in gubernatorial 29 and presidential 30 elections was collected from the ICPSR archives. Data on sales at filling stations was collected from the Census of Business, 31 and data on bank deposits was collected from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.…”

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Radio's Impact on Public Spending

Strömberg

2004

The Quarterly Journal of Economics

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“…Independent of the current data set, researchers might conduct a content analysis of blogs or other online sources to see if the rationales presented there differ from what we have found in traditional media (Protess, Leff, Brooks, and Gordon 1985). This will particularly be interesting given that,…”

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Ripped from the Headlines: What Can the Popular Press Teach us about Software Piracy?

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Curley²

2006

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Technological advances have outpaced the development of laws and norms to govern their acquisition and use. Software piracy is an instance of unauthorized duplication where laws and norms are not agreed upon. Although many articles have been written around the issue of software piracy, few have taken into consideration social and psychological aspects of the process. One barometer of the social environment is media coverage. This paper presents a content analysis (including actual quotes) of the five highest circulating U.S. newspapers 1989-2004 as evidence of the prevailing social environment surrounding software piracy. We classified the rationales for and against piracy using Fiske's (1991) structures for social interaction and found that those who condone piracy mostly evoke authority ranking and market pricing models, whereas those who condemn piracy mostly evoke market pricing models. Furthermore, not all the rationales given for/ against software piracy fit neatly into Sykes and Matza (1957) neutralization framework. Shariffah Zamoon and Shawn CurleyLast Revised: January 31, 2006Page 2 of 50 IntroductionThe development of technologies has outpaced the development of laws and norms that regulate their acquisition and use. The unauthorized duplication of digital products is an instance of this problem. Digital products are information that "can be digitizedencoded as a stream of bits" (Shapiro and Varian 1999, p.3). Digital products are compact, portable, and can be used virtually anywhere. However, the unauthorized duplication of digital products has created a gray area in the ethical landscape, where some condone the practice as legitimate while others condemn the practice as outright theft. Software, as an instance of a digital product exemplifies this situation well.Software piracy is defined as any reproduction of software that is in violation of its licensing agreement. The very term expresses a moral position, that espoused by the software industry. According to this view, piracy is stealing, it is a crime, and it is unethical. This is also the position expressed by the movie industry in ads against downloading films, another digital product. As ads on some currently sold DVDs state in For example, according to Solomon and O'Brien (1991), piracy is blessed with high acceptance among at least some students and, e.g. : "nearly half of the students had never heard a faculty member speak against illegal copying…a quarter of the sampled students had heard a faculty member condone the copying of protected software" (p. 174). The moral ambiguity of software piracy is further highlighted by the research of Strikwerda and Ross (1992), Logsdon, Reid (1994), andGlass andWood (1996) who have shown that piracy is not viewed as an ethical issue by some. Individuals may approach duplication as a preference choice, with no principles, norms, or values being brought to bear on the decision (Glass and Wood 1996).Because there are no agreed upon standards or norms to govern the acquisition and use of software, ...

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“…Journalists prefer to see themselves as watchdogs on political powerbrokers, but much of the time the relationship is more collaborative than adversarial (Protess et al 1985). Davis (2007) presents another perspective on this relationship when he says that politicians seek out journalists who hold similar views to enlist their support for a particular initiative, or to launch an attack on opponents.…”

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Bilingual Education and the Language of News

Waller

2012

Australian Journal of Linguistics

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Uncovering Rape: The Watchdog Press and the Limits of Agenda Setting

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Radio's Impact on Public Spending

Radio's Impact on Public Spending

Ripped from the Headlines: What Can the Popular Press Teach us about Software Piracy?

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