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Has Media Circus Spoiled Our Bread?

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Cable television is not an opiate of the masses. Fewer people watch network news,
presidential speeches, and presidential debates than before the spread of cable television
with ever?present alternative to news. This has not lead, we show, to a decline in political
engagement. Interest in politics and public affairs is higher than in the pre?cable era,
people are learning more about candidates, and make more evaluations about policy
and less about personality than before cable.

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Media, Elections, Voting Behavior
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Childers, Matthew. and Popkin, Samuel. "Has Media Circus Spoiled Our Bread?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL, Aug 30, 2007 <Not Available>. 2011-06-08 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209058_index.html>

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Childers, M. and Popkin, S. L. , 2007-08-30 "Has Media Circus Spoiled Our Bread?" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hyatt Regency Chicago and the Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers, Chicago, IL Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2011-06-08 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p209058_index.html

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Abstract: Cable television is not an opiate of the masses. Fewer people watch network news,
presidential speeches, and presidential debates than before the spread of cable television
with ever?present alternative to news. This has not lead, we show, to a decline in political
engagement. Interest in politics and public affairs is higher than in the pre?cable era,
people are learning more about candidates, and make more evaluations about policy
and less about personality than before cable.

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Has Media Circus Spoiled Our Bread?    Matthew Childers  Department of Political Science  University of California San Diego  Samuel L. Popkin  Department of Political Science  University of California San Diego    Prepared for Delivery at the   2007 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association   The Hyatt Regency Chicago  August 30 – September 2    Panel on "Informative Information Environments? The Relative Effects of Ads and News  in Elections"  Abstract  Cable television is not an opiate of the masses.  Fewer people watch network news   presidential speeches  and presidential debates than before the spread of cable television  with ever‐present alternative to news.  This has not lead  we show  to a decline in political  engagement.  Interest in politics and public affairs is higher than in the pre‐cable era   people are learning more about candidates  and make more evaluations about policy –  and less about personality – than before cable.     Prepared for delivery at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association August 30 - September 2 2007    Introduction  In this paper we examine whether cable television  the internet and all the other  alternatives to the once‐dominant evening news broadcasts of the “Big Three”  – CBS   NBC  and ABC –have lured people to entertainment and away from political engagement.   Our answer is an emphatic “no.”  We argue that rumors of the death of political engagement have been greatly  exaggerated.   Cable television is not an opiate of the masses.  The rise of cable television  has caused but a few more citizens to become civically challenged and politically deprived  while engaging many more.  There is little or no evidence of  the (net) negative changes  claimed to follow from the spread of cable television  declining audiences for network  news  or concentrated political advertising.  We argue that many of the claims of a  changing  less engaged citizenry are based upon misleading cross sectional studies or  unrealistic experiments.   Instead of asking “Where’s the Beef?”  we believe we should be  asking “Where’s the beef coming from?”  People now have more ways to choose the media content they want and ignore politics  when they are not interested.  American households receive  on average  over 60  television channels  compared to seven in the late 1960s.  More channels provide more  ways to obtain different news as well as more ways to avoid it.   As a result
 are fully partisan in their  evaluations of the major parties and who also reported voting in the November elections  (see details for Figure 7 above for details on how respondents were coded “fully partisan.”)   These respondents reported a positive evaluation for one party and a negative evaluation  of the other.  All‐Fully Partisan equals the proportion of all respondents who are “fully partisan” in their  evaluation of the major parties.  These respondents offered a positive evaluation of one  party and a negative evaluation of the other (see details for Figure 7 above for further  information).                 Childers Popkin  Appendix B   page 10 


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