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The Things They Cared About

Change and Continuity in Americans’ Attention to Different News Stories, 1989–2002

Stephen Earl Bennett

5740 Drakewick Drive, Evansville, IN 47711; phone: (812) 303-2472; fax: (812) 303-2714stephen.bennett{at}insightbb.com

Staci L. Rhine

Department of Political Science, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH 45501srhine{at}mail.wittenberg.edu

Richard S. Flickinger

Department of Political Science, Wittenberg University, Springfield, OH 45501rflickinger{at}wittenberg.edu

Pew Research Center polls in 1989, 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002 show that Americans pay more attention to media accounts of nonpolitical stories than those about national, international, and local politics. Although Americans’ attentiveness to political news rose between 2000 and 2002, attention to media accounts of politics remained below where it had been in 1989. For the most part, the relative rankings of attentiveness to different kinds of news stories remained the same. The authors also explore the factors that predict attention to political news.Finally,heed paid to media stories about politics appears to affect two important facets of democratic citizenship: political knowledge and participation.

Key Words: democratic theory • exposure to mass media • interest in the news • impact of 9/11

The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics, Vol. 9, No. 1, 75-99 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1081180X03259240
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