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Volume 84(2), 2007

 
CONTENTS
 
Howard, Philipo N., and Smith, Stephanie Channeling diversity in the public spectrum: Who qualifies to bid for which FCC licenses? 215-230
 
  Over the last decade, the FCC has licensed the use of the public spectrum with an online auction system 
 
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broadcasting and media
politics and government
economics
 
 
Pritchard, David, and Stonbely, Sarah Racial profiling in the newsroom 213-248
 
  This article examines patterns of story assignments at a metropolitan daily newspaper 
 
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print journalism
race and ethnicity
african american issues and civil rights
critical theory
news
 
 
Ramasubramanian, Srividya Media-based strategies to reduce racial stereotypes activated by news stories 249-264
 
  This study focuses on the role of media infacilitating and inhibiting the accessibility of stereotypes primed by race-related news stories 
 
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news
broadcasting and media
race and ethnicity
literacy
 
 
Marken, Lisa The real and the right: Journalistic authority and the coverage of Judith Miller 265-280
 
  Though journalists openly embrace the "information ideal" and derive authority from the strategies associated with objectivity, they simultaneously employ the "story ideal" and derive authority from the moral force that underlies narrative 
 
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broadcasting and media
rhetoric
 
 
Lasorsa, Dominic, and Dai, Jia When news reporters deceive: The production of stereotypes 281-298
 
  New stories and news columns revealed as deceptive were more likely than presumably authentic ones to treat members of social groups as identical, especially when referring to nationalities (e.g., Iraquis) and regions larger than a nation (e.g., Europeans) 
 
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deception
broadcasting and media
news
interpersonal
race and ethnicity
 
 
Kim, Kihan, and McCombs, Maxwell News story descriptions and the public's opinions of political candidates 299-314
 
  Combining a telephone survey of a probability sample of residents in the Austin, Texas, metropolitan area and a content analysis of the local daily newspaper, this study replicates and extends prior research on attribute agenda setting with an emphasis on the attribute priming consequences of agenda-setting effects for opinions about candidates in the 2002 Texas gubernatorial and U.S. senatorial elections 
 
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methodology
print journalism
broadcasting and media
public opinion
political elections
 
 
Christen, Cindy T., and Huberty, Kelli E. Media reach, media influence? The effects of local, national, and internet news on public opinion inferences 315-334
 
  These two experiments compare perceptions of local, national, and Internet news articles on two U.S. environmental policy issues: oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and ratification of the Kyoto treaty on global warming 
 
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ecology
politics and government
broadcasting and media
news
theory
 
 
Swain, Kristen Alley Outrage factors and explanations in news coverage of the anthrax attacks 335-352
 
  This content analysis examined risk communication factors in news coverage of the 2001 anthrax attacks appearing in 833 stories from 272 newspapers, AP, NPR, and four national television networks (CBS, NBC, CNN, ABC) 
 
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television
health
 
 
Stempel, Carl, Hargrove, Thomas, and Stempel, Guido H. III Media use, social structure, and belief in 9/11 conspiracy theories 353-372
 
  A survey of 1,010 randomly selected adults asked about media use and belief in three conspiracy theories about the attacks of September 11, 2001 
 
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social structure
broadcasting and media
 
 
Auman, Ann Survival in Paradise: How "local identity" helped save the Honolulu Star-Bulletin 373-391
 
  This study of the afternoon Honolulu Star-Bulletin after an announcement to shut it down in 1999 hypothesizes that the strong cultural connections sbetween the paper and its Hawaii community helped prevent its closure 
 
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