Today the Illinois News Bureau published an interview with Cline Center Director Professor Scott Althaus about our work on the ways media coverage can affect American politics.
His ongoing research finds that media coverage had a minimal effect on the public’s view of the Vietnam War. This finding weakens the basis for a factual claim about ‘casualty sensitivity’ that has had a profound impact on public dialogue about war, as well as debates within the US government and national security establishment for more than 40 years.