Stephen Hess, in Society (Jan.-Feb. 1994), Rutgers-The State University, New Brunswick, N.J. 08903.
Once a staple of front pages and nightly news shows, regular coverage of Congress is now scant, especially on TV. CNN is now the only TV news organization that has correspondents cov- ering both the House and the Senate full-time, observes Hess, a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.
One reason for the change, he says, is a shift in power within many "mainstream" news or- ganizations....