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This article relates news media coverage of major issues in the 1960's to public opinion and to the realities underlying those issues. It challenges some major assumptions—for example, that the media provide a useful picture of what is “really” going on—and discusses implications for policymakers and future research.
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G. Ray Funkhouser (1973) studied this question.
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