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Who and what influences the issues that policymakers attend to is central to the question of how power is exercised in politics. This study builds upon research by Soroka that proposes an expanded model of agenda setting as a means to examine how the media influences issue salience for the public and policymakers. It expands on Soroka's model by investigating the hypothesis that photographic attention to environmental issues in the news media influences issue salience for the mass public and governmental decision makers. There is little research that substantiates the idea, but it is widely believed that photographs have influence on the policy agenda. I use a dynamic, multidirectional model to estimate whether the volume of news photographs, in addition to news stories, influences issue salience among the mass public and policymakers. Data are longitudinal and measures of attention are operationalized as the number of congressional committee meetings, concern for the environment as a 'most important problem' in public opinion polls, environmental news stories in The New York Times, and environmental news photographs in Time magazine. Results suggest that photographic attention does influence environmental policy agenda dynamics in some counterintuitive ways that are distinct from the effects of the news stories. While news stories appear to increase public attention toward the environment, they have little influence on policymaker attention. News photographs, on the other hand, appear to drive congressional committee attention but elicit an ambivalent public response. KEY WORDS: agenda setting, environmental policy, news media, photographic agenda, Granger causality, vector autoregression, seemingly unrelated regression, Introduction Identifying who and what has influence over the problems policymakers attend to is central to the question of how power is exercised in politics (Baumgartner & Jones, 1993; Cobb [...]

I HAD seen these people plenty of times before. The mother in pink with hair swept up like cotton candy. The policeman in sunglasses with the cinder-block jaw, his gun [...]

The article studies Dr. Barnardo's strategies to secure donations by displaying charity children in public spectacles and shows how mediated advertising messages affect resistance to public benevolence by using shame, anger or humiliation. The press ads featuring a photograph of a baby preparing to inject heroin is used to investigate the influence of photographs in shaping how we look at human crises and how we evaluate these conflicts.

The power of the photograph needs to be recognized as it has a tremendous influence on a free press system. Through photographs one is able to understand stories on an emotional and personal level, framed by numerical and conceptual analysis of the written story.

Illustrated newspapers and magazines promoted economic opportunities in gold mining, planting, tourism and trading in the Australian territory of Papua. The widespread dissemination of pictorial material in this era enabled Australians to learn-by-looking at daily, weekly and monthly publications liberally illustrated with photographs.

Some trauma-memory-oriented psychotherapists advise clients to review old family photo albums to cue suspected 'repressed' memories of childhood sexual abuse. Old photos might cue long-forgotten memories, but when combined with other suggestive influences they might also contribute to false memories. We asked 45 undergraduates to work at remembering three school-related childhood events (two true events provided by parents and one pseudoevent). By random assignment, 23 subjects were also given their school classes' group photos from the years of the to-be-recalled events as memory cues. As predicted, the rate of false-memory reports was dramatically higher in the photo condition than in the no-photo condition. Indeed, the rate of false-memory reports in the photo condition was substantially higher than the rate in any previously published study.

Photographs give a vivid realization of what actually took place in any incident, which words don't do it. A journalist should be honest, fair and courageous in gathering, reporting and interpreting accurate information.