David H. Weaver is the Roy W. Howard Professor in Journalism and Mass Communication Research in the School of Journalism at Indiana University's Bloomington campus, where he has taught since 1974. He has published 11 books on journalists, the agenda-setting function of news media in elections, public opinion polls, and mass communication research methods, as well as numerous book chapters and articles on these subjects and foreign news coverage, mass communication research trends and journalism education. He was the 1987-88 president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Comm...