Building Fires Martin Linsky, in The Hastings Center Re-
port (June 1983), 360 Broadway,
st'aw Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. 10706.
The TV network news shows and top newspapers and magazines heav- ily influence the nation's political agenda, but newsmen are reluctant to acknowledge their power or to question how they use it.
Too often, says Linsky, a former Boston Globe editorial writer now at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, they decide what is news- worthy "on the basis of crasser values...