Daniel C. Hal-lin, in The Journal of Politics (Feb. 1984), Dept. of Political Science, Univ. of Fla., Gainesville, Fla. 32611.
American television journalists turned against the U.S. government during the 1960s, "lost" the war in Vietnam, and have been systemati- cally undermining public trust in American institutions ever since.
That view enjoys wide currency today. But Hallin, a political scien- tist at the University of California at San Diego, found little support for it in a survey...