Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigExact(2)
Does the general credibility of the newspaper influence your ability to trust the accuracy of the information reported therein?
"Newspaper influence on [reader] opinion," the study went on, was "a subtle, almost imperceptible process": either "the long-term reinforcement of opinions already held", or to "sow seeds and implant suggestions on points to which people have up to now given next to no thought".
Similar(58)
But Mass Observation warned over‑ideological proprietors: "People tend to resist newspaper influences that lead them in a direction they are not disposed to follow".
How do newspapers influence their audience?
Too much can be made of newspapers' influence over their readers' views.
Last week I wrote about the way in which national newspapers influence their audiences by hammering home the same message day after day.
Mr. Silverstein's original mission at The Times was to help attract a younger, more affluent readership at a time when television and an economic downturn were eroding newspapers' influence and profitability.
His argument smacks of bitterness and paranoia, to be sure, but, then again, it's hard to overstate that newspaper's influence on American public life.
It is always written in the same style, so now we try to read the news by the internet or by other mediums and there's the challenge for the old newspaper's influence.
In a television interview, the presumptive Republican nominee for the presidential race also said Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos, who owns the Washington Post, was using the newspaper to influence politicians in order to help his company on taxes.
People from the White House are not talking to reporters about Summers as leakers exposing abuses of power; they talk to reporters because they want what they say to appear in the newspaper and influence the public debate.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com