Perceived ethicality of some TV news production techniques by a sample of Florida legislators
David J. LeRoy, F. Leslie Smith · Speech Monographs · 1973
Given the subtle norms associated with television journalistic production techniques, the following question was posited: Can a sample of politicians make ethical evaluations concerning a variety of common television production decisions? A factor analysis of legislators’ responses extracted two higher order factors—one dealing with required editorial simplification, and the other concerning intentional distortion.