Article
Broadcast News and Elderly People: Attitudes of Local Television Managers
Educational Gerontology
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
10-1-1996
Disciplines
Abstract
The Kogan Attitudes Toward Old People Scale was used to measure local television manager attitudes toward elderly people. Census projections have shown that the elderly population will increase dramatically in the next century. The importance of local television news in the lives of the elderly makes the study of two groups of television managers - general managers and news directors 0 found that younger news directors have a more positive attitude toward older people, while the older general managers had a less positive attitude.
Citation Information
Michael L. Hilt and Jeremy Harris Lipschultz. "Broadcast News and Elderly People: Attitudes of Local Television Managers" Educational Gerontology Vol. 22 Iss. 7 (1996) p. 669 - 682 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jeremyharrislipschultz/33/
This is an Author's Accepted Manuscript of an article published in Hilt, M. L., & Lipschultz, J. H. (1996). Broadcast News and Elderly People: Attitudes of Local Television Managers. Educational Gerontology, 22, 7, 669-82. © 1996 Taylor & Francis, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0360127960220704.