“The issues that are raised by ethnic status are not exclusive to ethnicity but represent circumstances much wider in occurrence that appear more often among ethnic minorities.”

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Political variables were most important determinantsfor press behavior.3 Yet the factors of press criticism during which' influence public support of the Watergate period. Sociologicalpress-or its inverse, public criticismare not well understood. and psychological variables of lesser consequence. Support for the US. Press,Press systems in modem societies are the products of historical forces as well as current movements within the societies they serve, historicall and func-tional2 analyses underscore. Changes in public support for the press as well as other aspects of the social system, in ' S a FrrdericL. Skbcrt. Tbeodorc P * c m ud Wilbur Schnmm, F a 0 *orin of the p h u (Urtmlu. 111.: UNvenity of lllinoia Preu. 1956). ' S a Harold D. Lruwell. 7be Stnrturc and Function of Communialion in Society." in L. B y o n (cd.) 7 k Com-m~i c o t h of I d m (New York H a r p and Brothera, 1948). and C h r b R. W w t . M a s Communication (New Yo&: Rudom Home. 1975). 'Frrderict SKbcrt. RIcdom of the Re= in &Lmd 14761776 (Urtmru, Ill.: U N d t y of Illinois P~I . 1952). a r m for eumpk. t h t p m~ fmdom pncnlly d m u m in tima of rocLl turmoiL phxunnbly w k n puMk opinion ~lpporu rvcb racrictionr Thi~ position hu bccn rupponcd by t h work of D o d L S h w ud Stephen W. Bnuer. -Pru~ F d o m and W u Conrcninu: Cue Tuting Skbm'r Propaition 11." Jovmollrm Quwferfy, Community Tokmtion: Wiroruin in World War 1." JOUK-~m -w (1969). .~ld J O~ D. stcveq -P-and NALIIM Q~~i~t~~~,46:255-59 (1969). ' H a d Enkinc. "Tk POL. Opinion o f chc N m M d i : Ildk 9baion @arfer/y, W63043 (197071). 'Cited in Eratint, ibid. It ia interw@ to no(e (ht in Ihc N -of 1971. prior lo the Suprcm Court'r N-in favor of the m a h in the Pcnuaon Papm OT.

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