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Show 5 validity, opinion ultimately since Wilson's agencies the press upon of census D. information opinion as as many 500 a daily and weekly Department relied upon State a This by meant the leads, then, to a general was con instituted newspapers to gain the By 1949, an as sources aid in gauging policies.5 of what consideration "Like fog public opinion. term rely great number of newspapers and opinion concerning its interest and to Under Franklin activities. magazines, along with other opinion public more the concerning clipping service concerning governmental information and more Governmental many controversial matters. on Roosevelt, for example, which used world.tt4 the time have grown supply to governs exactly is smoke, public or opinion is obvious in its larger manifestations, but intangible at closer view."6 the difficulty writer This of any of despairing observation study involving ever able being recording points that most governments does exist, and shape 4pollard, op. 5Frederick York: Thomas Y. C. or or one this to writer points up topic. formulate Another an accurate assessing public opinion nevertheless method for out by operate modify their cit., p. as if actions public opinion to take it into 641. Irion, Public Opinion and Propaganda (New Co., 1950), pp. 580-582. Crowell 6pendleton Herring, "The Value of Public ·Opinion. as a Soc:i.al Myth," Voice of the People: Readings in Public Opinion and (New Reo M. Christenson and Robert O. McWilliams McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1962), p. 25. Propaganda, ed. York: |
