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Show 11 contents, item appealing the time of articles running O. in interest that on another foreign that the new student he items specialty attracted them.16 spent reading far 70 editorial journalism, pointed usually was As of some with the for time list read to the newspaper, to news affairs. in domestic shown given lowest Nafziger, finally Scott noted them. to per cent Ralph and the weather reports, lower than out interest said: Unless a crisis in foreign affairs arises reader interest tends to fade in proportion to the distance which separates the incident from the reader's place of residence or from his range of immediate experiences. The result is that the interest of readers is centered serious crisis appears to of on foreign affairs when a fer a threat to them, or when the cumulative effect of a series of crises or constant iteration of a viewpoint drives home the significance of the event.17 Judging from these Americans of two early part of the little of their time the majority Only when change in a can to press 1917. to on habits the the When, of 155. Power p. to foreign problem anarchy events 17Ra1ph Opinion'.During he Ph.De d Ls s e r t.a t.I.on news seems became within that of Of a of during quoted seems reaction University of to be of the Ameri the years a from 1912 critical in Francis E. Leupp, "The Monthly, CV (February, O. Nafziger, "The Ameri.can Press World War 1914 to Apri.l, 1917" , appreciable an country reached Atlantic spent, domestic nature. principle the time the pressing did This level that most clear twentieth century spent very items in Mexico Press," it newspapers. Dill Scott, the the occur. specific l6Waiter Waning 1910), reading devoted was reading supportable statements, and Public (unpublished Wisconsin, 1936), pp. 2,-3. |
