The Duty to Keep Informed: News Exposure and Civic Obligation

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Journal Article The Duty to Keep Informed: News Exposure and Civic Obligation Get access Maxwell McCombs, Maxwell McCombs 1Maxwell McCombs is John Ben Snow Professor of Newspaper Research and director of the Communications Research Center at Syracuse University, where Paula Poindexter was on the research staff at the time of this work. She is now special projects coordinator at the Los Angeles Times Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Paula Poindexter Paula Poindexter 1Maxwell McCombs is John Ben Snow Professor of Newspaper Research and director of the Communications Research Center at Syracuse University, where Paula Poindexter was on the research staff at the time of this work. She is now special projects coordinator at the Los Angeles Times Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 33, Issue 2, June 1983, Pages 88–96, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1983.tb02391.x Published: 07 February 2006