Americans think of public opinion largely as a function of polls. We have so many of them from a variety of sources. In this 2002 article Egyptian editors examine news media’s role in shaping public opinion. They include discussions on street opinion compared to how newspaper may or may not influence opinion. The editors’ assessments are extrapolated from interviews conducted by us authors. When reading this paper, I ask you to think about how we in the U.S. may have similar issues involving how the media influence public opinion. I think you may find some concerning similarities in the formation of current public opinion in the U.S, some 20 or more years after this research was conducted. It must be noted that social media and internet online news media are now playing a significant role in shaping citizen world views in both countries. but at the time of these 2002 interviews, they were fairly nascent in Egypt. Co-author Alaa Abdel-Ghani is a long time respected editor of the major English-language government newspaper Al-Ahram Weekly. Our other co-author Swiss-German Frederick Richter was a graduate student of mine at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. He is a long-stannding international journalist. I was teaching at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Click on the link below.
Americans think of public opinion largely as a function of polls. We have so many of them from a variety of sources. In this 2002 article Egyptian editors examine news media’s role in shaping public opinion. They include discussions on street opinion compared to how newspaper may or may not influence opinion. The editors’ assessments are extrapolated from interviews conducted by us authors. When reading this paper, I ask you to think about how we in the U.S. may have similar issues involving how the media influence public opinion. I think you may find some concerning similarities in the formation of current public opinion in the U.S, some 20 or more years after this research was conducted. It must be noted that social media and internet online news media are now playing a significant role in shaping citizen world views in both countries. but at the time of these 2002 interviews, they were fairly nascent in Egypt. Co-author Alaa Abdel-Ghani is a long time respected editor of the major English-language government newspaper Al-Ahram Weekly. Our other co-author Swiss-German Frederick Richter was a graduate student of mine at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. He is a long-stannding international journalist. I was teaching at the American University in Cairo, Egypt. Click on the link below.
