Public opinion on investigative reporting in the 1990s: Has anything changed since the 1980s?

From: Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | Date: October 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

In view of the recent developments in public attitudes toward the use of investigative reporting, this study compares past findings on perceived public importance of investigative reporting and the acceptability of different reporting methods with findings from a national telephone survey of 1,211 respondents conducted in February 1997 by Princeton Survey Research Associates. While past studies only found weak relationships between approval of investigative reporting and respondents' individual-level characteristics, this study hypothesizes that the increased use of these techniques in ...

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