Noelle-Neumann E
Institut für Publizistik der Universität Mainz, Allensbach/Bodensee.
Langenbecks Arch Chir. 1988;Suppl 2:325-9.
Information about reality conveyed by electronic images leads to naiveté--"I saw it with my own eyes"--and thus to the special credibility of television. There is a lack of awareness of "a reduced perspective" (H. Imdahl), of the fact that the television camera selects images for inclusion. Selection is very much influenced by the journalists' attitudes. Since the views of the experts often diverge greatly from those of journalists on important contemporary questions and the media predominantly reflect the views of the journalists, this gives rise to the problem of a "well-informed society," which in many respects is an illusion.
电子图像所传达的关于现实的信息导致了一种天真——“我亲眼所见”——从而赋予了电视特殊的可信度。人们缺乏对“视角受限”（H. 因达尔）的认识，即电视摄像机对纳入的图像是经过挑选的这一事实缺乏认识。挑选在很大程度上受记者态度的影响。由于专家们在当代重要问题上的观点往往与记者的观点大相径庭，而媒体主要反映记者的观点，这就产生了“信息灵通的社会”的问题，而在很多方面这是一种错觉。
