Media Use, Interpersonal Communication, and Political Socialization: An Interactional Model Analysis Using LISREL: ChengKuo

W ALTER Lippmann (1922), in his book Public Opinion, conclud-ed that it was the news media that transferred pictures of thepolitical universe to the minds of voters. Though the impact of the media on political learning and voting behavior has long been recognized, researchers in political socialization are still relatively less attentive to the role of the media in socialization than they are to other agents, for example, family, peers, school.