Government goes down the tube: images of government in TV entertainment, 1955-1998

In: The Harvard international journal of press, politics, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 96-103

Abstract

Explores changing portrayal of civilian-sector employees and elected officials and depiction of themes involving governmental practices and performance in prime time television programming, and extent to which the public's increasingly negative attitudes might be formed by the programs; US. Based on a study of 9,588 characters in 1,234 programs, of whom 561 (6%) were either public officials or federal, state, or local civil servants.