ABSTRACT
The year before, Minneapolis had a banner year for murders, and TV news made the most of it. A national newspaper eventually picked up the story, inventing the name Murder-apolis. So it wasn’t much of a surprise when Mrs. Harris called the director of the poll, worried that somehow her name was on a list of people who might come and-at the very least-steal her color TV or something. The poll director tried to quell her fears and explained that the newspaper and the state’s public TV network was sponsoring the Citizens’ Issues Conference. He said her phone number was picked at random, and interviewers did not know her name or city, just the county where the phone number was listed.
