Editorial
Global Media and Communication 2005;1 243-245
http://gmc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/1/3/243?etoc
Cosmopolitanization - now!: An interview with Ulrich Beck
Terhi Rantanen
Global Media and Communication 2005;1 247-263
http://gmc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/1/3/247?etoc
From NWICO to WSIS: another world information and communication order?:
Introduction
Claudia Padovani and Kaarle Nordenstreng
Global Media and Communication 2005;1 264-272
http://gmc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/1/3/264?etoc
'Twenty years mean nothing'
Guillermo Mastrini and Diego de Charras
Global Media and Communication 2005;1 273-288
http://gmc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1/3/273?etoc
The South and the imbalance in communication
Antonio Pasquali
Global Media and Communication 2005;1 289-300
http://gmc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1/3/289?etoc
Communication, global justice and the moral economy
Andrew Calabrese
Global Media and Communication 2005;1 301-315
http://gmc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1/3/301?etoc
Debating communication imbalances from the MacBride Report to the World
Summit on the Information Society: an analysis of a changing discourse
Claudia Padovani
Global Media and Communication 2005;1 316-338
http://gmc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1/3/316?etoc
Myths of digital technology in Africa: Leapfrogging development?
Gado Alzouma
Global Media and Communication 2005;1 339-356
http://gmc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1/3/339?etoc
What is bottom-up about global internet governance?
Lisa McLaughlin and Victor Pickard
Global Media and Communication 2005;1 357-373
http://gmc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/1/3/357?etoc
Book Review: The Media of Diaspora
John Downing
Global Media and Communication 2005;1 375-377
http://gmc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/1/3/375?etoc
Book Review: 'Watching Babylon': The War in Iraq and Global Visual Culture
Daniel Joyce
Global Media and Communication 2005;1 378-380
http://gmc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/1/3/378?etoc
A global farewell to 'Papa Wojtyla'
Maria Way
Global Media and Communication 2005;1 381-384
http://gmc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/1/3/381?etoc
Web Review: Blogs: has their time finally come -- or gone?
Shawn McIntosh
Global Media and Communication 2005;1 385-388
http://gmc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/1/3/385?etoc
16.11.05
European Journal of Communication 1 December 2005; Vol. 20, No. 4
The Internet and Political Participation: Exploring the Explanatory Links Rabia Karakaya Polat European Journal of Communication 2005;20 435-459 http://ejc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/20/4/435?etoc
Media, Madness and Misrepresentation: Critical Reflections on Anti-Stigma Discourse Stephen Harper European Journal of Communication 2005;20 460-483 http://ejc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/20/4/460?etoc
Where is the Frame?: Victims and Intruders in the Belgian Press Coverage ofthe Asylum Issue Baldwin Van Gorp European Journal of Communication 2005;20 484-507 http://ejc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/20/4/484?etoc
Media-Hype: Self-Reinforcing News Waves, Journalistic Standards and the Construction of Social Problems Peter L.M. Vasterman European Journal of Communication 2005;20 508-530 http://ejc.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/20/4/508?etoc
Review Article: Al Jazeera: The Enfant Terrible of Arab Media Ramez Maluf European Journal of Communication 2005;20 531-537 http://ejc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/20/4/531?etoc
Book Review: Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition Michael Pickering European Journal of Communication 2005;20 538-541 http://ejc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/20/4/538?etoc
Book Review: Comunicazione, Media e Societa -! Modelli, Analisi, Ricerche Valentina Cardo European Journal of Communication 2005;20 541-543 http://ejc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/20/4/541?etoc
Book Review: Bourdieu and the Journalistic Field Martin B. Carstensen European Journal of Communication 2005;20 543-545 http://ejc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/20/4/543?etoc
Book Review: The Social Study of Information and Communication Technology: Innovation, Actors, and Contexts Mark Erickson European Journal of Communication 2005;20 546-548 http://ejc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/20/4/546?etoc
Book Review: Conversation Analysis and Discourse Analysis: A Comparative and Critical Introduction Nigel Edley European Journal of Communication 2005;20 548-550 http://ejc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/20/4/548?etoc
Book Review: Transnational Television Worldwide: Towards a New Media Order Dave Sinardet European Journal of Communication 2005;20 550-553 http://ejc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/20/4/550?etoc
Book Review: How to Get a 2:1 in Media, Communication and Cultural Studies David Deacon European Journal of Communication 2005;20 553-555 http://ejc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/20/4/553?etoc
Book Review: Global Activism, Global Media Andrew Calabrese European Journal of Communication 2005;20 555-559 http://ejc.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/20/4/555?etoc
14.11.05
The last days of ink? (2)
Newspaper Execs Say Circ Declines Reflect Shift to Web, Less Discounting
NEW YORK Editors and publishers at some of the newspapers hardest hit by Monday's FAS-FAX reports say steps need to be taken to maintain current readers while attracting new ones. But to many, the circulation declines announced today by the Audit Bureau of Circulations came as no surprise, given the overall industry trend.
But most say the circulation measurements are incomplete because they still do not take into account growing Web site activity. Others also said they had lost circulation deliberately by ending or reducing discounted programs as their value becomes diminished in the ABC measurements.
Tom Fiedler, executive editor of The Miami Herald, said he does not expect circulation to increase during his lifetime, which means newspapers must focus on the Web as a genuine delivery system: "Circulation will continue to drop until there will be a plateauing, then I expect a rapid decline.
"Newspapers will become supplemental reading for a very elite audience," he added, and the online edition "will be where the popular press lives."
"We are well aware of it, that newspapers continue to struggle to reach their audience," said Anne Gordon, managing editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, which suffered an 11,000-copy drop in daily circulation, and about 30,000 on Sunday. "It's not a surprise."
Still, Gordon was among several who pointed to increasing Web activity as a factor that the current FAS-FAX measurements do not address. "The Philadelphia Inquirer has more readers than it has ever had if you factor in the Web. We have well over one million readers."
At the Herald -- which has experienced a 4.3% drop in weekday print circulation since September 2004 -- Fiedler says he sees a similar corresponding shift online, where Herald.com has seen an "accelerated increase" of about 30% per year: "We are seeing that our readership is not declining if you include online -- it is actually growing."
Denise Palmer, publisher of The Sun in Baltimore, which lost some 22,000 from its daily circulation, said through a spokesman that the Sun Web site "leads the market and adds about 10% to our total audience."
Among the hardest hit papers was The San Francisco Chronicle, which saw a 16.5% drop in weekday circulation, lowering the paper's daily count to just above 400,000. Chronicle Publisher Frank Vega, who took over in January, pointed to the "70 million page views a month" the paper's Web site gets as a mitigating factor.
Vega is among several newspaper leaders who noted a deliberate reduction in discounted circulation as part of the reason for a decline, citing a need to rely less on those numbers for true recognition. The Boston Globe took similar steps, which Senior Vice President Al Larkin blamed for part of its 37,000 daily circulation drop.
"We made a conscious decision to take down our 'other paid' and about half of our decline is based on that," Larkin told E&P. "We want to make sure the quality circulation we have is maintained going forward." The Orlando Sentinel, hit with an 11% daily circulation drop, blamed part of it on a planned move away from discounted hotel distribution.
"The hotel-program reductions were intentional, so these results were expected," Deborah Irwin, vice president and director of circulation for Orlando Sentinel Communications, said in a statement. "We changed our circulation strategy in January 2005 -- significantly reducing our hotel program. Circulation results will continue to show year-over-year declines until we cycle through this change at the end of 2005."
But Larkin and others admitted that the overall circulation decline is a sign of lost and potential readers. "It is a trend that we are working hard to reverse," he said, without revealing any exact plans.
Many of the papers also cited specific causes in their markets or for their products that sparked declines. Fiedler said the increased use of "do not call" lists in his area had sparked a slowdown in subscription solicitations by phone. "That is a major tool" that his sales people have had taken away, he said.
At USA Today, which still has the highest circulation of any daily paper in the country at 2.2 million despite a slight 13,500 drop, spokesman Steve Anderson pointed to the single-copy sales price increase from 50 cents to 75 cents one year ago. Taking that factor into account, he believed the dip was almost unnoticeable. "Our issue has been the cover price and it has basically been flat," he said of circulation. "We have increased subscription sales."
At The Sun, Palmer also sought to spin the circulation decline by noting more recent increases in single-copy sales during the third quarter, which she says are up 6% daily and 7.5% on Sunday. In addition, she pointed to a Sunday circulation jump during the past four months that has yet to be reflected in the FAS -FAX report. "I am encouraged by the recent circulation trends," she said.
In Philadelphia, Gordon said the paper had made changes to its Saturday bulldog issue, with a redesign and earlier delivery time that she said had added 3,000 to 4,000 more single-copy sales of that edition. "There are a lot of plans in place to increase home delivery," she added. "We have more delivery sites and we are fairly optimistic about it."
When asked how the Inquirer's planned reduction of 75 newsroom jobs might make a circulation increase even harder, Gordon dismissed any connection. "There are fine newspapers in the country with 75 employees, period," she said. "It is a factor of a lot of things."
Average Weekday Circulation
Newspaper Sept. 2005 Circ Gain/Loss Change
USA Today 2,296,335 -13,518 -0.59%
The Wall Street Journal 2,083,660 -23,114 -1.10%
The New York Times 1,126,190 5,133 0.46%
Los Angeles Times 843,432 -33,184 -3.79%
Daily News, New York 688,584 -26,468 -3.70%
The Washington Post 678,779 -28,991 -4.09%
New York Post 662,681 -11,708 -1.74%
Chicago Tribune 586,122 -14,866 -2.47%
Houston Chronicle (M-S) 521,419 -33,367 -6.01%
Boston Globe 414,225 -37,246 -8.25%
Arizona Republic (M-S) 411,043 -2,225 -0.54%
San Francisco Chronicle (M-S) 400,906 -79,681 -16.58%
Star-Ledger (N.J.) 400,092 50 0.01%
Star Tribune (Minn.) (M-S) 374,528 -961 -0.26%
Atlanta Journal-Constitution 362,426 -34,674 -8.73%
Philadelphia Inquirer 357,679 -11,635 -3.15%
Detroit Free-Press 341,248 -7,590 -2.18%
Cleveland Plain-Dealer 339,055 -15,845 -4.46%
Oregonian (Portland, Ore.) 333,515 -4,192 -1.24%
San Diego Union-Tribune 314,279 -20,908 -6.24%
NEW YORK Editors and publishers at some of the newspapers hardest hit by Monday's FAS-FAX reports say steps need to be taken to maintain current readers while attracting new ones. But to many, the circulation declines announced today by the Audit Bureau of Circulations came as no surprise, given the overall industry trend.
But most say the circulation measurements are incomplete because they still do not take into account growing Web site activity. Others also said they had lost circulation deliberately by ending or reducing discounted programs as their value becomes diminished in the ABC measurements.
Tom Fiedler, executive editor of The Miami Herald, said he does not expect circulation to increase during his lifetime, which means newspapers must focus on the Web as a genuine delivery system: "Circulation will continue to drop until there will be a plateauing, then I expect a rapid decline.
"Newspapers will become supplemental reading for a very elite audience," he added, and the online edition "will be where the popular press lives."
"We are well aware of it, that newspapers continue to struggle to reach their audience," said Anne Gordon, managing editor of The Philadelphia Inquirer, which suffered an 11,000-copy drop in daily circulation, and about 30,000 on Sunday. "It's not a surprise."
Still, Gordon was among several who pointed to increasing Web activity as a factor that the current FAS-FAX measurements do not address. "The Philadelphia Inquirer has more readers than it has ever had if you factor in the Web. We have well over one million readers."
At the Herald -- which has experienced a 4.3% drop in weekday print circulation since September 2004 -- Fiedler says he sees a similar corresponding shift online, where Herald.com has seen an "accelerated increase" of about 30% per year: "We are seeing that our readership is not declining if you include online -- it is actually growing."
Denise Palmer, publisher of The Sun in Baltimore, which lost some 22,000 from its daily circulation, said through a spokesman that the Sun Web site "leads the market and adds about 10% to our total audience."
Among the hardest hit papers was The San Francisco Chronicle, which saw a 16.5% drop in weekday circulation, lowering the paper's daily count to just above 400,000. Chronicle Publisher Frank Vega, who took over in January, pointed to the "70 million page views a month" the paper's Web site gets as a mitigating factor.
Vega is among several newspaper leaders who noted a deliberate reduction in discounted circulation as part of the reason for a decline, citing a need to rely less on those numbers for true recognition. The Boston Globe took similar steps, which Senior Vice President Al Larkin blamed for part of its 37,000 daily circulation drop.
"We made a conscious decision to take down our 'other paid' and about half of our decline is based on that," Larkin told E&P. "We want to make sure the quality circulation we have is maintained going forward." The Orlando Sentinel, hit with an 11% daily circulation drop, blamed part of it on a planned move away from discounted hotel distribution.
"The hotel-program reductions were intentional, so these results were expected," Deborah Irwin, vice president and director of circulation for Orlando Sentinel Communications, said in a statement. "We changed our circulation strategy in January 2005 -- significantly reducing our hotel program. Circulation results will continue to show year-over-year declines until we cycle through this change at the end of 2005."
But Larkin and others admitted that the overall circulation decline is a sign of lost and potential readers. "It is a trend that we are working hard to reverse," he said, without revealing any exact plans.
Many of the papers also cited specific causes in their markets or for their products that sparked declines. Fiedler said the increased use of "do not call" lists in his area had sparked a slowdown in subscription solicitations by phone. "That is a major tool" that his sales people have had taken away, he said.
At USA Today, which still has the highest circulation of any daily paper in the country at 2.2 million despite a slight 13,500 drop, spokesman Steve Anderson pointed to the single-copy sales price increase from 50 cents to 75 cents one year ago. Taking that factor into account, he believed the dip was almost unnoticeable. "Our issue has been the cover price and it has basically been flat," he said of circulation. "We have increased subscription sales."
At The Sun, Palmer also sought to spin the circulation decline by noting more recent increases in single-copy sales during the third quarter, which she says are up 6% daily and 7.5% on Sunday. In addition, she pointed to a Sunday circulation jump during the past four months that has yet to be reflected in the FAS -FAX report. "I am encouraged by the recent circulation trends," she said.
In Philadelphia, Gordon said the paper had made changes to its Saturday bulldog issue, with a redesign and earlier delivery time that she said had added 3,000 to 4,000 more single-copy sales of that edition. "There are a lot of plans in place to increase home delivery," she added. "We have more delivery sites and we are fairly optimistic about it."
When asked how the Inquirer's planned reduction of 75 newsroom jobs might make a circulation increase even harder, Gordon dismissed any connection. "There are fine newspapers in the country with 75 employees, period," she said. "It is a factor of a lot of things."
Average Weekday Circulation
Newspaper Sept. 2005 Circ Gain/Loss Change
USA Today 2,296,335 -13,518 -0.59%
The Wall Street Journal 2,083,660 -23,114 -1.10%
The New York Times 1,126,190 5,133 0.46%
Los Angeles Times 843,432 -33,184 -3.79%
Daily News, New York 688,584 -26,468 -3.70%
The Washington Post 678,779 -28,991 -4.09%
New York Post 662,681 -11,708 -1.74%
Chicago Tribune 586,122 -14,866 -2.47%
Houston Chronicle (M-S) 521,419 -33,367 -6.01%
Boston Globe 414,225 -37,246 -8.25%
Arizona Republic (M-S) 411,043 -2,225 -0.54%
San Francisco Chronicle (M-S) 400,906 -79,681 -16.58%
Star-Ledger (N.J.) 400,092 50 0.01%
Star Tribune (Minn.) (M-S) 374,528 -961 -0.26%
Atlanta Journal-Constitution 362,426 -34,674 -8.73%
Philadelphia Inquirer 357,679 -11,635 -3.15%
Detroit Free-Press 341,248 -7,590 -2.18%
Cleveland Plain-Dealer 339,055 -15,845 -4.46%
Oregonian (Portland, Ore.) 333,515 -4,192 -1.24%
San Diego Union-Tribune 314,279 -20,908 -6.24%
The last days of ink?
Newspaper Circulation Slides 2.6 Percent
Average weekday circulation at U.S. newspapers fell 2.6 percent during the six month-period ending in September in the latest sign of trouble in the newspaper business, an industry group reported Monday.
Sunday circulation also fell 3.1 percent at newspapers reporting to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, according to an analysis of the data by the Newspaper Association of America.
The declines from the same period a year ago show an acceleration of a years-long trend of falling circulation at daily newspapers as more people, especially young adults, turn to the Internet for news and as newspapers cut back on less profitable circulation.
In the previous six-month reporting period ending in March, weekday circulation fell 1.9 percent at U.S. daily newspapers and Sunday circulation fell 2.5 percent. By comparison, a year ago newspapers reported a 0.9 percent decline in weekday circulation and a 1.5 percent fall on Sundays.
Circulation at the country's three largest newspapers was relatively stable in the most recent reporting period, but many others showed significant declines.
Gannett Co.'s USA Today, the largest-selling daily, slipped 0.6 percent from the same period a year ago to 2,296,335; The Wall Street Journal, published by Dow Jones & Co., fell 1.1 percent to 2,083,660; and The New York Times rose 0.5 percent to 1,126,190.
Of the rest of the top 20 newspapers reporting, all but one, The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., posted declines generally ranging between 1 percent and 8 percent.
The San Francisco Chronicle, published by Hearst Corp., posted a 16.4 percent tumble in circulation as the newspaper slashed less profitable, heavily discounted and giveaway circulation subsidized by advertisers.
Circulation has been steadily declining at newspapers for several years as readers look to other media for news. Tougher rules on telemarketing have also hurt newspapers' ability to sign up new readers.
Newspapers also face sluggish growth in advertising, higher newsprint prices and increasing concern among investors about newspaper growth prospects. The second-largest newspaper publisher in the country, Knight Ridder Inc., is facing a revolt from two of its top shareholders, who want the company to be sold.
John Murray, the vice president in charge of circulation at the NAA, said on a conference call with reporters that despite the continued slippage in overall paid circulation, newspapers were retaining subscribers longer.
That can save newspapers money over time as costs fall for replacing subscribers who don't renew. Newspaper executives also say advertisers are increasingly looking for "quality" circulation, meaning copies that aren't sold at a discount or given away for free to people who might be less interested in actually reading the paper than someone who signed up and is paying full price.
To that end, newspapers are steadily reducing their reliance on telemarketing to replace lost subscribers since those readers are more likely to drop out. Telemarketing has also become more difficult and expensive after the national "do-not-call" law went into effect in 2003. As of 2004, the number of new subscribers from telemarketing fell to 30.9 percent versus 39.1 percent in 2002, the NAA says.
Newspapers are also hoping to keep subscribers longer by signing them up for recurring payment options such as automatic checking account deductions or credit card charges. Murray said the portion of papers using automatic payment plans rose to 15 percent last year versus less than 5 percent two years before that.
Stricter circulation reporting rules and increased caution following a circulation misstatement scandal a year ago have also led to publishers being more conservative in reporting their circulation figures, Murray said. "The price of making a mistake went up dramatically in terms of visibility and notoriety," Murray said.
Four major newspapers which had been barred from filing circulation data for the previous two reporting periods deferred making reports until their next six-month audits are complete. Those papers are Newsday of New York's Long Island; the Dallas Morning News; the Chicago Sun-Times and Hoy, a Spanish-language newspaper in New York.
Four other newspapers whose circulation was affected by Hurricane Katrina did not file statements with the Audit Bureau: The Times-Picayune of New Orleans; the American Press in Lake Charles, La.; The Beaumont Enterprise in Texas; and The Daily Leader in Brookhaven, Miss.
Average weekday circulation at U.S. newspapers fell 2.6 percent during the six month-period ending in September in the latest sign of trouble in the newspaper business, an industry group reported Monday.
Sunday circulation also fell 3.1 percent at newspapers reporting to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, according to an analysis of the data by the Newspaper Association of America.
The declines from the same period a year ago show an acceleration of a years-long trend of falling circulation at daily newspapers as more people, especially young adults, turn to the Internet for news and as newspapers cut back on less profitable circulation.
In the previous six-month reporting period ending in March, weekday circulation fell 1.9 percent at U.S. daily newspapers and Sunday circulation fell 2.5 percent. By comparison, a year ago newspapers reported a 0.9 percent decline in weekday circulation and a 1.5 percent fall on Sundays.
Circulation at the country's three largest newspapers was relatively stable in the most recent reporting period, but many others showed significant declines.
Gannett Co.'s USA Today, the largest-selling daily, slipped 0.6 percent from the same period a year ago to 2,296,335; The Wall Street Journal, published by Dow Jones & Co., fell 1.1 percent to 2,083,660; and The New York Times rose 0.5 percent to 1,126,190.
Of the rest of the top 20 newspapers reporting, all but one, The Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J., posted declines generally ranging between 1 percent and 8 percent.
The San Francisco Chronicle, published by Hearst Corp., posted a 16.4 percent tumble in circulation as the newspaper slashed less profitable, heavily discounted and giveaway circulation subsidized by advertisers.
Circulation has been steadily declining at newspapers for several years as readers look to other media for news. Tougher rules on telemarketing have also hurt newspapers' ability to sign up new readers.
Newspapers also face sluggish growth in advertising, higher newsprint prices and increasing concern among investors about newspaper growth prospects. The second-largest newspaper publisher in the country, Knight Ridder Inc., is facing a revolt from two of its top shareholders, who want the company to be sold.
John Murray, the vice president in charge of circulation at the NAA, said on a conference call with reporters that despite the continued slippage in overall paid circulation, newspapers were retaining subscribers longer.
That can save newspapers money over time as costs fall for replacing subscribers who don't renew. Newspaper executives also say advertisers are increasingly looking for "quality" circulation, meaning copies that aren't sold at a discount or given away for free to people who might be less interested in actually reading the paper than someone who signed up and is paying full price.
To that end, newspapers are steadily reducing their reliance on telemarketing to replace lost subscribers since those readers are more likely to drop out. Telemarketing has also become more difficult and expensive after the national "do-not-call" law went into effect in 2003. As of 2004, the number of new subscribers from telemarketing fell to 30.9 percent versus 39.1 percent in 2002, the NAA says.
Newspapers are also hoping to keep subscribers longer by signing them up for recurring payment options such as automatic checking account deductions or credit card charges. Murray said the portion of papers using automatic payment plans rose to 15 percent last year versus less than 5 percent two years before that.
Stricter circulation reporting rules and increased caution following a circulation misstatement scandal a year ago have also led to publishers being more conservative in reporting their circulation figures, Murray said. "The price of making a mistake went up dramatically in terms of visibility and notoriety," Murray said.
Four major newspapers which had been barred from filing circulation data for the previous two reporting periods deferred making reports until their next six-month audits are complete. Those papers are Newsday of New York's Long Island; the Dallas Morning News; the Chicago Sun-Times and Hoy, a Spanish-language newspaper in New York.
Four other newspapers whose circulation was affected by Hurricane Katrina did not file statements with the Audit Bureau: The Times-Picayune of New Orleans; the American Press in Lake Charles, La.; The Beaumont Enterprise in Texas; and The Daily Leader in Brookhaven, Miss.
Special Issue of Public Opinion Quarterly: Polling Politics, Media, and Election Campaigns!!!!
Did the polls “get it wrong” in the 2004 election? Do certain
polls have a “liberal” or “conservative” bias, as alleged by
partisans in the campaign? Did journalists accurately cover
polling controversies in 2004, or did they contribute to them?
These and other questions are addressed in an upcoming special
issue of Public Opinion Quarterly, which will be published in
December, 2005.
This special issue of POQ, edited by Lawrence Jacobs and Robert
Shapiro, examines the polls, the media and their evolving
relationship. Appearing on the 25th anniversary of an
influential POQ symposium on the polls and the media, this issue
assembles an extraordinary collection of national experts to
take current stock of “the polls,” media reporting on them, and
their use in the American political process at the beginning of
the 21st century.
Ballot Design and Unrecorded Votes on Paper-Based Ballots
David C. Kimball and Martha Kropf
Public Opin Q 2005 69: 508-529.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/4/508?etoc
A Tale of Political Trust in American Cities
Wendy M. Rahn and Thomas J. Rudolph
Public Opin Q 2005 69: 530-560.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/4/530?etoc
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Do Advance Letters Improve Preelection Forecast Accuracy?
Christopher B. Mann
Public Opin Q 2005 69: 561-571.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/4/561?etoc
Advance Letters as a Means of Improving Respondent Cooperation in Random
Digit Dial Studies: A Multistate Experiment
Michael W. Link and Ali Mokdad
Public Opin Q 2005 69: 572-587.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/4/572?etoc
Effects of Personal Salutations in E-mail Invitations to Participate in a
Web Survey
Dirk Heerwegh
Public Opin Q 2005 69: 588-598.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/4/588?etoc
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The Polls
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Same-Sex Marriage and Civil Unions
Paul R. Brewer and Clyde Wilcox
Public Opin Q 2005 69: 599-616.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/69/4/599?etoc
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Book Reviews
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George F. Bishop. The Illusion of Public Opinion: Fact and Artifact in
American Public Opinion Polls. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield
Publishers. 2004. 248 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).
Leo W. Jeffres
Public Opin Q 2005 69: 617-620.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/69/4/617?etoc
Marco Calavita. Apprehending Politics: News Media and Individual Political
Development. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. 2005. 285 pp.
$81.50 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).
Molly Andolina
Public Opin Q 2005 69: 620-623.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/69/4/620?etoc
Richard E. Chard. The Mediating Effect of Public Opinion on Public Policy:
Exploring the Realm of Health Care. Albany, NY: State University of New
York Press. 2004. 180 pp. $39.00 (cloth).
Felicia Mebane
Public Opin Q 2005 69: 623-625.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/69/4/623?etoc
W. Phillips Davison. Things Might Go Right: Prospects for Peace and a
Better Life in an Age of Globalization and Specialization. Lincoln, NE:
iUniverse, Inc. 2004. 345 pp. $23.95 (paper).
Elisabeth Noelle and Wilhelm Haumann
Public Opin Q 2005 69: 626-628.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/69/4/626?etoc
Michael A. Genovese and Matthew J. Streb. Polls and Politics: The Dilemmas
of Democracy. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. 2004. 192
pp. $54.40 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). * Michael W. Traugott and Paul J.
Lavrakas. The Voter's Guide to Election Polls. 3d ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman
and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2004. 194 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $19.95
(paper).
Thomas J. Johnson
Public Opin Q 2005 69: 629-631.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/69/4/629?etoc
James A. Stimson. Tides of Consent: How Public Opinion Shapes American
Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2004. 206 pp. $55.00
(cloth); $16.99 (paper).
Mark D. Brewer
Public Opin Q 2005 69: 632-634.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/69/4/632?etoc
polls have a “liberal” or “conservative” bias, as alleged by
partisans in the campaign? Did journalists accurately cover
polling controversies in 2004, or did they contribute to them?
These and other questions are addressed in an upcoming special
issue of Public Opinion Quarterly, which will be published in
December, 2005.
This special issue of POQ, edited by Lawrence Jacobs and Robert
Shapiro, examines the polls, the media and their evolving
relationship. Appearing on the 25th anniversary of an
influential POQ symposium on the polls and the media, this issue
assembles an extraordinary collection of national experts to
take current stock of “the polls,” media reporting on them, and
their use in the American political process at the beginning of
the 21st century.
Ballot Design and Unrecorded Votes on Paper-Based Ballots
David C. Kimball and Martha Kropf
Public Opin Q 2005 69: 508-529.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/4/508?etoc
A Tale of Political Trust in American Cities
Wendy M. Rahn and Thomas J. Rudolph
Public Opin Q 2005 69: 530-560.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/4/530?etoc
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Research Notes
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Do Advance Letters Improve Preelection Forecast Accuracy?
Christopher B. Mann
Public Opin Q 2005 69: 561-571.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/4/561?etoc
Advance Letters as a Means of Improving Respondent Cooperation in Random
Digit Dial Studies: A Multistate Experiment
Michael W. Link and Ali Mokdad
Public Opin Q 2005 69: 572-587.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/4/572?etoc
Effects of Personal Salutations in E-mail Invitations to Participate in a
Web Survey
Dirk Heerwegh
Public Opin Q 2005 69: 588-598.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/69/4/588?etoc
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The Polls
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Same-Sex Marriage and Civil Unions
Paul R. Brewer and Clyde Wilcox
Public Opin Q 2005 69: 599-616.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/69/4/599?etoc
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Book Reviews
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George F. Bishop. The Illusion of Public Opinion: Fact and Artifact in
American Public Opinion Polls. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield
Publishers. 2004. 248 pp. $80.00 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).
Leo W. Jeffres
Public Opin Q 2005 69: 617-620.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/69/4/617?etoc
Marco Calavita. Apprehending Politics: News Media and Individual Political
Development. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. 2005. 285 pp.
$81.50 (cloth); $27.95 (paper).
Molly Andolina
Public Opin Q 2005 69: 620-623.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/69/4/620?etoc
Richard E. Chard. The Mediating Effect of Public Opinion on Public Policy:
Exploring the Realm of Health Care. Albany, NY: State University of New
York Press. 2004. 180 pp. $39.00 (cloth).
Felicia Mebane
Public Opin Q 2005 69: 623-625.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/69/4/623?etoc
W. Phillips Davison. Things Might Go Right: Prospects for Peace and a
Better Life in an Age of Globalization and Specialization. Lincoln, NE:
iUniverse, Inc. 2004. 345 pp. $23.95 (paper).
Elisabeth Noelle and Wilhelm Haumann
Public Opin Q 2005 69: 626-628.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/69/4/626?etoc
Michael A. Genovese and Matthew J. Streb. Polls and Politics: The Dilemmas
of Democracy. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press. 2004. 192
pp. $54.40 (cloth); $19.95 (paper). * Michael W. Traugott and Paul J.
Lavrakas. The Voter's Guide to Election Polls. 3d ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman
and Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2004. 194 pp. $65.00 (cloth); $19.95
(paper).
Thomas J. Johnson
Public Opin Q 2005 69: 629-631.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/69/4/629?etoc
James A. Stimson. Tides of Consent: How Public Opinion Shapes American
Politics. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2004. 206 pp. $55.00
(cloth); $16.99 (paper).
Mark D. Brewer
Public Opin Q 2005 69: 632-634.
http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/69/4/632?etoc
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