The role of the news media in defining the important issues of the day, also known as the
agenda-setting influence of mass communication, has received widespread attention over …

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5 Intermedia Influence and the Drug Issue: Converging on Cocaine Stephen D. Reese Lucig …

" In an arena of public policy where misinformation and disinformation reigns,... facts are
desperately needed, and Cocaine Changes gives us a bucketful of them. Anyone who …

As legislatures proliferate novel “enhancements” to criminal sentencing, such as “three‐
strikes” and related provisions, and as criminologists debate their effects, the role of existing …

This New York Times editorial had a certain unintended irony, for" America's paper of
record" itself had long been one of the leading orators, supplying a steady stream of the stuff …

This paper examines how journalists and graphic artists in the national print media used
statistical results from annual surveys of student drug use to construct quantified claims …

QUJTTiNG Cocaine is a two-part exploration of the unique niche cocaine occupies among
recreational drugs and the tension that marks the struggle between indulging in the impulse …

This chapter traces the media coverage of the" crack crisis" and summarizes the core claims
made about the destructiveness of the cocaine and crack" plague". It shows that a gap …

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In 1986 the American public got a big dose of drug coverage from the mass media.
Newspapers, magazines, and television reacted en masse to the drug-related deaths of …