Rob Zaleski’s column the other day on UW-Madison Professor Dietram Schuefele’s research on the differences between TV news viewers and newspaper readers underscored just how much this country is changing – and I’m not so sure it’s for the better.
Schuefele is the journalism professor who surveyed nearly 800 residents of Tompkins County, N.Y., in the days after the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center to determine if they viewed governmental police powers differently depending on where they got their news.