Most people know quite a bit about their friends and family, including how happy and healthy they are and roughly how much money they make. It turns out this knowledge of others extends to politics, too.
Sociologist Herbert Gans says the news media should do a better job noting that “polls are answers to questions rather than opinions,” and that not all opinions have the same intensity — or the same impact.
Coddington, Mark. "This Week in Review: Weigel and new journalism values, Google News gets personal, and Kos’ poll problem." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 2 Jul. 2010. Web. 16 Apr. 2024.
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Coddington, M. (2010, Jul. 2). This Week in Review: Weigel and new journalism values, Google News gets personal, and Kos’ poll problem. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 16, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2010/07/this-week-in-review-weigel-and-new-journalism-values-google-news-gets-personal-and-kos-poll-problem/
Chicago
Coddington, Mark. "This Week in Review: Weigel and new journalism values, Google News gets personal, and Kos’ poll problem." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified July 2, 2010. Accessed April 16, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2010/07/this-week-in-review-weigel-and-new-journalism-values-google-news-gets-personal-and-kos-poll-problem/.
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