...facts and set them into relation with each other, and make a picture of reality on which men can act." The press "is like the beam of a searchlight that...bringing one episode and then another out of darkness inio vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this light alone. They cannot govern society by...

...news signalizes an event and is not a synonym for truth, that in short, and at best, the newspaper is "like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly...episode and then another out of darkness into vision". The press, he points out, cannot present a synthesis but only a fragmentary analysis, cannot reveal...

...light the hidden facts."3 The press, Lippmann wrote, plays at best a limited role, functioning like a searchlight that moves "restlessly about, bringing one episode and then another out of the darkness into vision."4 His biographer, Ronald Steel, has pointed out what was equally important...

...problems. Media advocates use the media to set the health policy agenda. Agenda Setting Mass media are like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly...episode and then another out of darkness into vision. —Walter Lippmann (1922/1965) This classic image is as relevant today as it was when first put forth...

...psychological foundations, and argue for a revival of experimentation in the study of political communication. [The press] is like the beam of a searchlight that...about, bringing one episode and then another out of the darkness into vision. W. Lippmann (1922) Four decades ago, spurred by the cancer of fascism abroad...

...created and reported and how the agenda-setting process works. Walter Lippmann noted, "Mass media are like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly...episode and then another out of darkness into vision" (1965[1922], p. 229). The key to media advocacy is to fix the searchlight on public policy issues,...

...measurement. Chapter 3 What Gets Covered and Where hen Walter Lippmann wrote in 1922 that the press was "like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly...episode and then another out of darkness into vision," his description aptly fit the way television would someday cover foreign news.1 Today journalists speed...

...environment which, in large part, determines these habits. The Functions of Media Advocacy Mass media are like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly...episode and then another out of darkness into vision. WALTER LIPPMANN (1922) Substantial evidence suggests that the media agenda determines the public agenda:...

...permits us to develop only a very partial and slanted view of our environment. Walter Uppmann said: The press ... is like the beam of a searchlight that...vision. Men cannot do the work of the world by this view alone. They cannot govern society by episodes, incidents, and eruptions' (1947: 364). Some people...

...in the democratic system, Lippmann was keen to show that it was 'no substitute for institutions. It is like the beam of a searchlight that moves restlessly...about bringing one episode and then another out of the darkness and into vision' (Lippmann, 1922: 229). The very episodic nature of news reporting, the...