An Editorial Comment

zyxwvutsrq zyxwvutsr zyxwvutsrq zyxwv ANEDITORIAL COMMENT By JeanF o W s , The George Washington University This issue begins with a provocative article by Peter Parisi on News Narratives for Public Journalism. Public, or civic, journalism has been a topic of discussion within the industry and by academics for a number of years now. I hope this article sparks further consideration of the various issues involved. Also included in this issue is a response to a previous article, "Old-Growth Forests on Network News: News Sources and the Framing of an Environmental Controversy." It is my hope that including controversial topics and comments about articles will enhance discussion within academic circles about important theoretical and content issues. It has come to my attention that the lead article in the Autumn issue, "Toward a Troubleshooting Manual for Journalism History," by Michael Schudson, has indeed sparked such discussion. Responses and comments are always welcome. Another item in this issue is an extremely important list: a list of individuals who have reviewed manuscripts for Journalism &Mass Communication Quarterly who are not members of the editorial board and who rarely receive public recognition. I publish the list here as a public thank-you and as a notice of the variety and multiplicity of views and individuals involved in the publication of the journal. Roya Akhavan-Majid, Minnesota Sherry Alexander, LoyolaNew Orleans Kwadwo Anokwa, Butler David K. Atkin, Cleveland State Ben Bates, Tennessee Randal Beam, Indiana Louise Benjamin, Georgia W. Lance Bennett, Washington Lori Bergen, Kansas State Dan Berkowitz, Iowa Dorothy Bowles, Tennessee Douglas Boyd, Kentucky Pam Brown, Rider Robert T. Buckman, Southwestern Judith M. Buddenbaum, Colorado State Douglas Campbell, Lock Haven Meta G. Carstarphen, North Texas David Cassady, Pacific Catherine Cassera, Bowling Green Steven Chaffee, Stanford Barbara Cloud, NevadaLas Vegas Tom Connery, St. Thomas Anne Cooper-Chen, Ohio William Davie, Southwestern David P. Demers, Washington State Hazel Dicken-Garcia, Minnesota Sandra Dickson, West Florida Paul D. Driscoll, Miami Michel Dupagne, Miami Kitty Endres, Akron James S. Ettema, Northwestern John Ferre, Louisville Fred Fico, Michigan State Joe Foote, Southern Illinois Lewis Friedland, Wisconsin Bruce M. Garrison, Miami Celilie Gaziano, Minneapolis Leonard0 C. Gerreira, Miami Douglas Gomery, Maryland Lauri Grunig, Maryland William A. Hachten, Wisconsin Daniel Hallin, California, San Diego Steve Helle, Illinois Stewart Hoover, Colorado Robert Huesca, Trinity Leo W. Jeffres,Cleveland State Owen V. Johnson, Indiana Melissa Johnson, North Carolina Lynda Lee b i d , Oklahoma Jong G. Kang, Illinois State Kevin Keenan, Maryland Sue Lafky, Iowa T.Y. Lau, Indonesia Jung-Sook Lee, Southwestern Laura Leets, Stanford Paul Lester, California State Carolyn Lin, Cleveland State Lisbeth Lipari, Portland State Greg Lisby, Georgia State Steven Livingston, George Washington Frances R. Matera, Arizona State Ebb McChesney, Wisconsin Don McComb, Middle Tennessee Douglas McLeod, Delaware Geetu Melwani, Ohio State M. Mark Miller, Tennessee Hamid Mowlana, American John Newhagen, Maryland John S. Nichols, Penn State Eugenia Palmegiano, St. Peter’s ANE~IUUCOMMENI Richard Perloff, Cleveland State Dan Pfaff, Penn State Robert G. Picard, California State Cornelius Pratt, Michigan State Jyotika Ramaprasad, Southern Illinois Eric Rothenbuhler, Iowa Charles T. Salmon, Michigan State Melissa Nichols Saphir, Stanford Tom Schwartz, Ohio State David 0.Sears, California, Los Angeles Hemant G. Shah, Wisconsin Mitchell Shapiro, Miami Michael A. Shapiro, Cornell M. Kent Sidel, South Carolina Michael W. Singletary Tennessee William C. Sodurlund, Canada William S. Solomon, Rutgers Sigman Splichal, Miami Don W. Stacks, Miami Kenneth Starck, Iowa Guido H. Sternpel, Ohio Robert L. Stevenson, North Carolina Gerald Stone, Southern Illinois George Sylvie, Texas Alexis S. Tan, Washington State Leonard Teel, Georgia State DOM Tilson, Miami Judy VanSlyke Turk, South Carolina Shalini Venturelli, American K. Viswanath, Ohio State Ellen Wartella, Texas David H. Weaver, Indiana Mary Ann Weston, Northwestern D. Charles Whitney, Texas Rob Wicks, Arkansas Lars Willnat, George Washington Tim Wulfemeyer, San Diego Xinshu Zhao, North Carolina Dolf Zillmann, Alabama zyxw zyx zy zyxwvutsr 669 Comms zyx An Editorial Comment JEAN FOLKERTS PETER PARISI, Toward a “Philosophyof Framing”: News Narratives for Public Journalism zyxw KEITH STAMM, MICHELLE JOHNSON, and BRENNON MARTIN, Differences among Newspapers, Television, and Radio in Their Contribution to Knowledge of the Contract with America MAXWELL MCCOMBS, JUAN PABLO LLAMAS, ESTEBAN LOPEZESCOBAR, and FEDERICO REY, Candidate Images in Spanish Elections: SecondLevel Agenda-Setting Effects DAVID DOMKE, DAVID P. FAN, MICHAEL FIBISON, DHAVAN V. SHAH, STEVEN S. SMITH, and MARK D. WATTS, News Media, Candidates and Issues, and Public Opinion in the 1996 Presidential Campaign zyxwvut LARS WILLNAT, ZHOU HE, and H A 0 XIAOMING, Foreign Media Exposure and Perceptions of Americans in Hong Kong, Shenzhen, and Singapore C. ANN HOLLIFIELD, The Specialized Business Press and lndust y-Related Political Communication: A Comvarative Studu HONG CHENG, Toward an Understanding ofCultura1 Values Manifest in Advertising: A Content Analysis of Chinese Television Commercials in 1990 and 1995 zyxwvut zyxwv ANN M. MAJOR and L. ERWIN ATWOOD, Changes in Media Credibility When a Predicted Disaster Doesn‘t Happen 670 JOURNAUSMb m s COMMUNICATION QUAWERLY zyxwvuts zyxwvu BOOK REVIEWS Edited by Paula M . Poindexter and Lisa Romero INDEX to VOLUME 74 CONTENTS 671 zyxwvut zyxwvu zyxwvut zy zyxwvutsrqp Information for Contributors Journalism 8 Mass Communication Quarterly strives to be the flagship journal of the Association for Education in Journalismand Mass Communicationand to be a premier journal in the field. The journal should provide leadershipin developing theory and introducingnew conceptsto its readership. Because communications is a diverse field, articles should address questions using a variety of methods and theoreticalperspectives. Journalism &Mass Communication Quarterly should challengethe boundaries of communication research, guiding its readers to new questions, new evidence, and new conclusions. Articles should be written in a style that is accessible to all communicationscholars. 1. Submissions. Submit four typed or computer-processed double-spaced copies of your manuscript. We try to make decisionswithin three months. Manuscriptsshouldbe no longer than 5,000 words. 2. Abstract and author information. Write an abstract of no more than 100 words. Include author information: academic or professional title and university and departmental affiliation (if any). 3. Style. Use ChicagoManual ofstyle (14th.ed.) guidelines for all manuscripts. For law manuscripts, Chicago refers you elsewhere for certain citations. Do not use in-text references, i.e., (Weston, 1972). 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Do not duplicate materialin text and tables. Tables and figures should be used only when they substantially aid the reader, not merely because computers make tables easy to create. 6. Disks. If your manuscript is accepted,you will be asked to submit the final copy on a 3 1/ 2 disk in Wordperfect or Microsoft Word for the IBM/Compatible or in Microsoft Word 5.0 for the MacIntosh. z Basic Endnote Style: 1. Todd Gitlin, lnside Prime Time (NY: Pantheon, 1985),82. [Note that page numbers do not carry the pp. or p. prefix.] 2. JosephR. Dominick, “Children’sViewing of Crime Shows and Attitudes on Law Enforcement,” Journalism Quarterly 51 (spring 1974): 5-12. 3. Robert K. Manoff and Michael Schudson, eds., Reading the News (NY: Pantheon Books, 1986),8. 4.Leon V. Sigal, “Sources Make the News,” in Reading the News, ed. Robert Karl Manoff and Michael Schudson (NY Pantheon Books, 1986), 9-37. 5. “Nicaragua’s Bitter Harvest: War in Coffee Fields,” New York Times, 23 December 1983,sec. A, p. 2, col. 4. 6. E.W. Caspari and R.E. Marshak, ”The Rise and Fall of Lysenko,” Science, 16 July 1965,275-278. 7. Jean Folkerts, “William Allen White: Press, Power and Party Politics” (Ph.D. diss., University of Kansas, 1981), 182-184. 8. George A. Donohue, Clarice N. Olien, and Phillip J. Tichenor, “KnowledgeGaps and Smoking Behavior” (paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Association for Public Opinion Research, Lancaster, PA, 1990). [When association is AEJMC, use initials only.] 9. ”Currents in the News,” U.S. News and World Report, 11February 1980,5. Shortened, or Second References: 1. Gitlin, Inside Prime Time, 2. 2. Dominick, ”Children’sViewing” 8. 3. Sigal, “Sources Make the News,” 22. zyx Send submissions to Journalism 6 Mass Communication Quarterly Editorial Office, School of Media and Public Affairs, The George WashingtonUniversity, Washington, DC 20052,Phone: 202/ 994-6226, FAX 202/994-5806,BITNET JFOLK@GWUVM, Internet: [email protected].