Television News and the Elderly
Subtitle: Broadcast Managers' Attitudes Toward Older Adults (Garland Studies on the Elderly in America)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: November 1, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780815326274
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural studies; United States; Social Gerontology; Contemporary Issues In Mass Communication; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Television broadcasting of news; Reference; Television broadcasting of new; Television - General; Social Science / Sociology / General; Older people on television; Ageism; Television and older people
First sentence: Studies and rating surveys agree that television news has become the public's most important source of information (Bower, 1985; Iyengar &amp; Kinder, 1987; Coulson &amp; Macdonald, 1992).