What Can a President Learn from the News Media? The Instructive Case of Richard Nixon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6227709 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher F Karpowitz (0000-0002-9782-9856, Brigham Young University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 755-780 |
| Publication date | 2009-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1234 • E-ISSN: 1469-2112 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0007123409990135 |
| OpenAlex | W2133288313 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
This study examines the media diet of Richard Nixon, whose exposure to the news consisted almost entirely of a White House-produced daily news summary. Nixon staffers repeatedly asserted that the summary was the most effective way to give the president a comprehensive, objective account of the previous day’s reporting. While the summaries covered a wide range of media sources, analysis of the framing and filtering done by the White House raises doubts about the assertion that summaries were an effective substitute for first-hand consumption of the news. Nixon’s handwritten marginal notes reveal that the summaries provoked reactions in the president that had important implications for his conduct of the presidency
Advertising · Assertion · Business · Framing (construction · Media studies · News media · Political science · Politics · Presidency · Sociology · White (mutation · Computer Science · History · Law · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 0,17 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2018 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |