Recent Trends in Adversarial Attitudes among American Newspaper Journalists: A Cohort Analysis

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Abstract
This study examines journalists' perceptions of the adversarial role of the press toward public officials and business, based on two national samples of newspaper journalists, surveyed in 1983 and 1988 respectively. After the journalists were broken down into various age cohorts, three distinctive trends emerged. During the five-year period, the oldest cohorts demonstrated a drop in adversarial position, the middle-aged cohorts became more adversarial, and the youngest cohorts showed a tendency toward the middle-of-the-road. A log-linear analysis suggested that these trends were related to age effect and cohort effect, but not period effect.

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