What Kind of Media, and When? Public Opinion about Press Coverage of Politicians' Private Lives

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Journal of Mass Media Ethics 26 (3):206 - 223 (2011)
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Respondents in a southern state telephone survey agreed that media coverage of public leaders' private lives is an important news media responsibility, with agreement greater for legacy media than for online media, and differing depending on hypothetical scenario. The data also suggest increasing tolerance for such coverage and growing belief in responsibility of media to report on private indiscretions relative to previous studies

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10.1080/08900523.2011.581970

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