Doris A. Graber is professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has written and edited numerous articles and books on the media and public opinion, including "Mass Media and American Politics, " Seventh Edition (2006), "The Power of Communication: Managing Information in Public Organizations" (2003), and "Processing Politics: Learning from Television in the Internet Age" (2001), which won the 2003 Goldsmith Book Prize. This award is given by the Joan Shorenstein Center on the "Press, Politics, and Public Policy" at the John F. Kennedy School of Government.