In 1945, soci­olo­gist Bern­ard Ber­el­son took advant­age of a news­pa­per deliv­ery strike in New York to do some research, later pub­lished as What ‘Miss­ing The News­pa­per’ Means.

With 500 Aus­sie journos on strike (see their web­site), I thought it might be instruct­ive to revisit a few of Berelson’s obser­va­tions, to see how they held up today. Con­tinue read­ing →