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SINCLAIR,
SHAW, BERNARD (1940- ) is the principal Washington anchor for the Cable
News Network (CNN). He handles much of the network's special events cov-
erage. He has been with CNN since its inception in 1980, having made the
move from ABC because of the opportunity to anchor newscasts there. Before
that, Shaw served as Latin American correspondent and bureau chief for ABC
News (he is fluent in Spanish) and later as senior Capitol Hill correspondent for
ABC News. Prior to that, he was with CBS News and an anchor/reporter for
WNUS in Chicago. He has received extensive recognition and awards for his
work, including George Foster Peabody and Emmy Awards. He acquired per-
haps his greatest recognition for his coverage of the outbreak of the Persian
Gulf War in January 1991. As cameras captured the image of bombs and anti-
aircraft fire, Shaw and CNN reporters Peter Arnett and John Holliman described
what they saw and felt from their vantage point in Baghdad, Iraq, by means of
a high-tech satellite telephone. Shaw's work not only from Baghdad but from
other locations as well is thought to have greatly enhanced the reputation and
credibility of CNN as a news source. CNN vice president Ed Turner calls Shaw
' 'today's Walter Cronkite." Cronkite, Shaw's idol and mentor, compliments the
CNN anchor in words similar to those he used to hear during his days at CBS:
"He sounds authoritative and believable." A journalist first and foremost, Shaw
says, "I'm not here to entertain anyone."
SOURCE: Judy Flander, "Sizing Up Shaw," USA Today, March 4, 1991, p. 4.
Joseph A. Russomanno

SHAW, DONALD L. (1936- ) was coauthor with Max McCombs of the first
agenda-setting study, done in the 1968 presidential election. When it was pub-
lished in Public Opinion Quarterly, it stimulated interest in the topic, and there
have been more than 200 agenda-setting studies since.
Shaw received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of
North Carolina and returned there as a faculty member after completing his
doctorate at Wisconsin. He was associate editor of Journalism Quarterly from
1983 to 1987 and then editor from 1989 to 1992. He was also coeditor with
Robert Stevenson of Foreign News and the New World Information Order,
published in 1984. It is one of the more extensive studies of foreign news
coverage. (See also Agenda Setting.)

SOURCE: William David Sloan, Makers of the Media Mind, 1990.
Guido H Stempel III

SINCLAIR, UPTON (1878-1968), novelist, social activist, and political can-
didate, was one of the turn-of-the-century writers to whom President Theodore
Roosevelt gave the name "muckrakers." Sinclair is best remembered for his
novel The Jungle (1906), an account of horrors in the Chicago meatpacking
industry. He also wrote Oil! (1927), an examination of the Teapot Dome Scan-