
You've Got a Friend in Me: How Journalists Report on Political Sources
What determines politicians’ presence in the news? Why do we often read about some politicians but not about others? Politicians rely on the news media to get their messages to the citizens, and their access to the media is limited. Relatively few politicians get their ideas to print, yet fewer make it to the front page of a paper. Ample research has therefore addressed the question of who gets their desired news coverage and why. It is widely established that newsworthy poli