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Hess, Stephen.The Ultimate Insiders: U.S. Senators and the National Media. Washington, D.C.: The Brookings Institution, 1986.
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Stanley Rothman is Mary Huggins Gamble Professor of Government at Smith College and director of the Center for the Study of Social and Political Change. He is author or coauthor of ninety articles and seven books, including The Media Eliteand The IQ Controversy, The Media and Public Policy.
Robert Lerner is assistant director of the Center for the Study of Social and Political Change. He has written a number of articles and monographs on the media and on American leadership groups. His latest essay, “Marginality and Liberalism among Jewish Elites,” coauthored with Althea Nagai and Stanley Rothman, will be published in spring 1989 in the Public Opinion Quarterly.
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Rothman, S., Lerner, R. Television and the communications revolution. Society 26, 64–70 (1988). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02698319
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02698319