ABSTRACT
In Protess and McCombs' (1991) edited collection of seminal agenda setting research, the initial introduction to the public agenda discussion begins with the following statement:
Each generation writes its own history of the world. This is not because of any pernicious desire to cast aside the worldview of their fathers and mothers or even to rewrite history more to their liking! Although these motives may not be totally absent, each generation creates a history differing in significant details from previous versions principally because they came of age under a new set of circumstances. (p. 1)
