Soft news goes to war : public opinion and American foreign policy in the new media age / Matthew A. Baum.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [330]-343) and index.

Preface -- chapter 1. War and entertainment -- appendix. Defining "Attentiveness" -- ch. 2. Soft news and the accidentally attentive public -- appendix. Locating changes in cognitive costs and benefits -- ch. 3. "I heard it on Oprah" -- appendix. Content analysis coding form -- chapter 4. Bringing war to the masses -- appendix 1. On using opinionation as an indictor of attentiveness -- appendix 2. Variable definitions -- appendix 3. Statistical tables -- chapter 5. Tuning out the world isn't as easy as it used to be -- appendix 1. Data sources and variable definitions -- appendix 2. Testing for floor and ceiling effects -- appendix 3. Comparing Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf War -- appendix 4. Statistical tables -- chapter 6. Rallying round the water cooler -- appendix 1. Variable definitions -- appendix 2. Statistical tables -- chapter 7. Soft news and world views : foreign policy attitudes of the inattentive public -- appendix. Statistical tables -- chapter 8. Soft news, public opinion, and American foreign policy : the good, the bad, and the merely entertaining -- appendix. Statistical tables -- Notes -- References -- Index.