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harmed because the media rely heavily upon official sources for news stories."
While "it is perfectly reasonable for the media to pay attention to public offi-
cials," when "an official point of view is conveyed but other important views are
excluded, citizens may be misled." Traditionally, this has been a major problem
in media systems like the United States, where "government officials [retain]
monopoly control" over media source^?^

Notes

1. Elizabeth M. Perse, Media Effects and Society (Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum,
2001), 27.
2. Bernard C. Cohen, The Press and Foreign Policy (Berkley, Ca.: University of Cali-
fornia, 1993), 13.
3. Maxwell McCombs and David L. Protess, "The Agenda Setting Function of Mass
Media," in Agenda Setting: Readings on Media, Public Opinion, and Policymaking, ed.
Maxwell McCombs and David L. Protess (Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1991), 21-
22.
4. McCombs and Protess, Agenda Setting, 26.
5. Ray Funkhouser, "The Issues of the Sixties: An Exploratory Study in the Dynamics
of Public Opinion," in Agenda Setting: Readings on Media, Public Opinion, and Policy-
making, ed. Maxwell McCombs and David L. Protess (Mahway, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum,
1991), 39.
6. James W. Dearing and Everett M. Rogers, Agenda Setting (London: Sage, 1996),
12.
7. Perse, Media Effects, 98.
8. Perse, Media Effects, 26.
9. Perse, Media Effects, 106.
10. Michael Parenti, Inventing Reality: The Politics of News Media (New York: St.
Martins, 1993).
1 1. Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder, News That Matters: Television and Ameri-
can Opinion (Chicago: University of Chicago, 1987), 17.
12. Iyengar and Kinder, News That Matters, 4.
13. Allen McBride and Robert K. Toburen, "Deep Structures: Polpop Culture on
Primetime Television," in Culture and Politics: A Reader, ed. Lane Crothers and Charles
Lockhart (New York: St. Martins), 145.
14. Frank Newport and Lydia Saad, "A Matter of Trust," American Journalism Review
July/August 1998, http://www.ajr.org/article.asp?id=352 (10 Sep.2005).
15. Editor & Publisher, "Public Confidence in News Media Falls to New Low," 10
June 2005, http://www.independent-media.tv/item.cfmd=l 1 176&fcategory_de-
sc=Undef??20Reported (10 Sep. 2005).
16. Pew Research Center, "Public More Critical of Press, But Goodwill Persists," 26
June 2005, http://peoplspress.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=248 (10 Sep. 2005).
17. New York Times and CBS, "The New York TimesICBS Poll," 20-25 January 2006,
http://www.nytimes.com~packages/pdf/poliOO60127qoll~results.pdf Aug. 2005).
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18. Pew, "Public More Critical of the Press," 2005.
19. Pew Research Center, "All Three Commercial Evening News Anchors Viewed
Positively," 24 August 2006, http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID-286
(14 Oct. 2006).