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"Other articles where Thomas E. Patterson is discussed: soft news: …makes news “hard” or “soft,” Thomas E. Patterson of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University argued in his public-policy paper “Doing Well and Doing Good” that soft news “weakens the foundation of democracy by diminishing the public’s information about public affairs and its interest in politics.”…"
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